Taking a plane, remember your manners

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:11:00 GMT

Manners for airline travel

- Dress comfortably but nicely. A well-dressed American makes an instant favorable impression.

- Check your large pieces of baggage instead of carrying it on board. If you do carry it with you, be careful not to hit passengers in aisle seats as you walk through the cabin.

- If you are traveling with a baby, change your infant's diapers in the privacy of a lavatory and not in the empty seat next to you!

- When the flight attendant comes by with the drinks cart, have your credit card ready or give him exact change.

- Help keep the lavatory presentable. Everyone appreciates it when you wipe the sink before you exit the location.

- Leave your litter in a neat pile on your seat when you leave the plane, in consideration for the cleaning crew. As you disembark, always thank the lined up Flight Attendants. They are rarely thanked and they usually try very hard to please the passengers.

- If the captain or co-captain is standing in the doorway to the cockpit, thank him for a "a good flight."

- Many passengers ignore the pilot and crew , so go out of your way to praise them for their hard work.

Finding the right words

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:46:00 GMT

I'm grateful to my mother and father for teaching me the importance of writing thank you notes, sympathy and condolence cards. Throughout the last 25 years I have had times where it was most difficult to come up with the right words for that handwritten card. How many times have you struggled to find the right words-- especially for a get well card or sympathy card?

Greeting cards are a permanent and wonderfully meaningful method of communication. Emails and phone calls are great, but they're gone as soon as you hit the "send" button, or hang up the receiver. After an occasion has passed, we often hang onto the memories, the photographs, and the greeting cards.

A good letter or card not only relays feelings and emotions but leaves them on the record. A letter means that someone has put time and effort into crafting a personal message to you, which does not necessarily hold true with a communication faxed from one person's office to another's, or an email, or with a voice message.

A great way to honor someone is to recant or tell them something wonderful from the past. A compliment for that person or a family relative of the deceased. Write about the small moments and how that person made you feel at the time. Those words are special since hearing a compliment is never forgotten.

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Taking a plane, remember your manners

Finding the right words