Welcome! to my blog. To start off, please allow the following statements to serve as a disclaimer to anything I may say in the course of this blog. This is not, for me at least, a way get back at people, or make people look bad, but rather to work on improving society. Fixing the social problems, pointing out the flaws in whatever I see fit, tackling the important questions in the wold today, and finally, and probably the most important of all, talking about the stupid crap that people do that ticks me off. So, to start things off right, I will begin with a short story (really like a few sentences) followed by the first question to this blog.
Today, I was leaving a library, and, as it often occurs, I ended up following someone out the door. As any decent human would, she held the door open for me, to which I replied "Thank you." Simple enough. But then came the second door. Again she held the door, and again I thanked, which leads to my question.
Are multiple "thank you's" necessary, or is the first on carried to the second subsequent act of kindness? Especially in such close proximity to one another. I am faced with this question often times several times a day. Sometimes, when I enter the building in which I live, I thank the same person 3 times in a matter of 30 seconds for the same thing. If there are 2 doors, should one wait for the second holding, or is the "thanks" from the first implied? I feel as though I thank people way too often, and get the feeling as well, that I may aiding in destroying the effectiveness of the words "Thank You." If one over-uses them, for every-little-teenie-tiny-deed of kindness, does it not stand to reason that it will soon lose any meaning that it once held? Obviously, if the subsequent acts of kindness (and by subsequent 2 occurring in a span of 30 seconds) are totally different deeds, multiple "thanks" would be required. Anyone can see that. But what about the other questions??? I shall think long and hard on this matter.- TheRinker
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