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If you are standing in front of an elevator waiting patiently for it to arrive after you have punched your destination button, please, do not rush into the elevator immediately it arrives without considering the others trying to exit.

Courtesy demands that you wait until all passengers have exited the elevator before you try to enter the elevator.

Bottom-line: Wherever you find an elevator, make it a habit to not rush aggressively into it before others exit. Being patient and allowing others to exit before you enter will benefit everyone. Correct?

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Courtesy and Morals.

No one can provide for an adult morals or principles to run with in life, except these adults are bent on acquiring good morals as a result of society scolding them every now and again for rude behavior.

Courtesy can be learned, but can only be learned when good morals are already embedded or in display in a person’s personality. Principles or Morals can only be taught to children growing up, so that as they grow older they will be able to decipher evil from good and being respectful from being rude.

As an adult you owe yourself the duty to instil discipline/morals into you. No adult can be forced to get morals; if they are ingrained they will be exhibited without struggle. Courtesy and morals are intertwined; when you have morals you have courtesy. These are good traits to covet because it drags favor towards you, so that, whenever you require assistance, people are willing and ready to assist you without a blink of an eye. Correct?

Courtesy and Morals.

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When you are sending an email to a group of persons and at the same time you want someone outside this ring to receive the same message, you fix it using the Blind Carbon Copy field. It is not wise to include this individual into the “To” field where everyone’s name in the ring is placed. Courtesy and respect for the group demands that you include the name of that individual in the Blind Carbon Copy field “BCC”. Blind Carbon Copy allows this individual to receive the same mail without the group knowing the individual received it.

Bottom-line: If you want someone else to see an email others are privileged to see, use the BCC field, else trouble may brew like wild fire. Correct?

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There are times we bump into a friend we have not seen for a long time either on social network sites or on the streets and we do some catch-up on old times, and at the end of the conversation we decided to exchange contact details so as to keep in touch.

In the scenario outlined above, you may want to start with only your phone number, so, you may want to politely tell them you should both communicate via phone first. This is to allow you skip giving out your address without seeking the consent of your spouse (if you are married) or your parents (if you are living with parents or aunts) to release your home address.

Courtesy demands that you seek the consent or permission of whomever you are living with before you give away their home address. This is of outmost importance considering the number of years you have lost touch; you never know their current background after all.

Bottom-line:Never give out personal contact information of friends or loved ones without their consent or permission. Correct?

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“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.” ~ Dale Carnegie.

Courtesy is a very important virtue. It is a sign of respect to others. When dealing with people be very courteous because whatever you dish out to people you get in return. No-one wants to be treated with disdain or cruelty. The world will always be a better place if people are treated with respect.

When you are writing a note or an email to a friend, colleague or boss, do not write anything in caps (capitalized words), it conveys to someone that you are “screaming”. You don’t want to yell or scream at your boss or friend. You do not want to lose your job or friend. Correct?

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You are invited to a function, on getting there you found out that the venue is packed out, but you spotted a vacant sit right at an angle away from you. You walked briskly towards it and sat on it, just then, you saw a senior or an elderly man standing right beside you, and suddenly you are caught up in a divide whether to give up your sit for him or just play “Mr. Blind”. Please, at no point in time should you ever find yourself ignoring the elderly and children. Courtesy and respect demands you give up your sit for seniors or the elderly, pregnant women and children. Children and the elderly are most regarded in situations as this. Correct?

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When you are driving with people in your car and you suddenly bump into a pothole or cracked road, be kind enough to say, “Sorry”. Courtesy demands that from you to the people you are carrying as it demonstrates respect, and it communicates to them that you did not deliberately put them in the hole. That aside, it is the proper thing to do. Correct?

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