RESPECT: Stories about it

[Elvis 3371]

I suppose courtesy falls into this category too.  Just a little thing that happened to me yesterday.  

So when I drive around in my truck in the country, I almost always wear a ball cap or a cowboy hat.  I don't drive real fast and I try to extend as much country style driving courtesy as possible. Lot's of waving and letting people pass, that type of thing.   I find people are really a lot more friendly when I'm wearing my cowboy hat.  I also think it helps drivers see where I'm looking because they can see the silhouette.

Well I'm at this red light out near Caldwell, and I'm next to a big F350 with my window down.  We both accelerate (not race) and it's a little up-hill, so he is getting ahead of me.  I look to the left and I'm staring right into the exhaust pipe and I can tell that truck is ready to shift and blow out black smoke right into my window.  I think the driver saw me look left because he let off the gas and kept the truck from blasting me.  I certainly think that cowboy hat helped my country street cred out there, which led to the other driver extending the courtesy and respect that an aggressive driver or a little car might not have received.

 

  I open doors, say yes/no ma'am/sir, say hi to anyone that looks at me, good ol' country stuff.  I give everyone the max amount of respect until they give me a reason not to.

 

 

Have a good story?  Trying to keep this positive, but dis-respect is just as important of a topic.  

 

 

[TonyTexas 10515]

Hey, what you want
(Oo) Baby, I got
(Oo) What you need
(Oo) Do you know I got it?
(Oo) All I'm askin'
(Oo) Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Hey baby (just a little bit) when you get home
(Just a little bit) mister (just a little bit)

I ain't gonna do you wrong while you're gone
Ain't gonna do you wrong (oo) 'cause I don't wanna (oo)
All I'm askin' (oo)
Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Baby (just a little bit) when you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

I'm about to give you all of my money
And all I'm askin' in return, honey
Is to give me my profits

When you get home (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
When you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit) Do it for me now, just a little bit

Ooo, your kisses (oo)
Sweeter than honey (oo)
And guess what? (oo)
So is my money (oo)
All I want you to do (oo) for me
Is give it to me when you get home (re, re, re, re)
Yeah baby (re, re, re, re)
Whip it to me (respect, just a little bit)
When you get home, now (just a little bit)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB
Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me
Sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me
Sock it to me, sock it to me)
Whoa, babe (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)
I get tired (just a little bit)
Keep on tryin' (just a little bit)
You're runnin' out of foolin' (just a little bit)
And I ain't lyin' (just a little bit)

'spect
When you come home (re, re, re, re)
Or you might walk in (respect, just a little bit)
And find out I'm gone (just a little bit)
I got to have (just a little bit)
A little respect (just a little bit)

[Steel Shank 9426]

Well now we're respected in society
We don't worry about the things that we used to be
We're talking heroin with the president
Well it's a problem, sir, but it can't be bent
Uh yes!

Well now you're a pillar of society
You don't worry about the things that you used to be
You're a rag-trade girl, you're the queen of porn
You're the easiest lay on the White House lawn
Get out of my life, don't come back
Get out of my life, don't come back

She's so respectable
She's so respectable
She's so delectable
She's so respectable
Get out of my life
Don't take my wife
Don't come back
Get out of my life
Don't take my wife
Don't come back
What I say!

She's so respectable
She's so respectable
She's so respectable
She's so respectable
Get out of my life
Don't take my wife…

[davidg 4038]

 

[Elvis 3371]

[40acredropout 2902]

Don’t know what kind of response you expected from this gaggle of dickheads.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

No such thing as respect in this country anymore

[Elvis 3371]

I kindly disagree, sir. I teach it to my boys and all the players I coach. They catch on pretty quick when you set the expectation that it is given as well as received. 
 

I realize now that I started this thread during a strange day for America that I didn’t know was happening at the time I wrote it. 
 

Maybe it’s a chance to come together here and tell a good story about life the way it otta be. 

[Guest]

Related to the wearing of cowboy hats and getting different reactions, I work in the public.  Most often when I am out and about it is in khakis/ slacks and a polo with my company's logo.  Every once in a while, the dress shirt, tie, and possibly a jacket go on.  People act very differently and it is borderline creepy.  Store employees, who do not work for me greet me  differently, as in, they actually look up from what they are doing and extend a "Hello" or "Good morning!"  When I first started, I would do this once or twice a week; until I realized the semi-disruption it was causing.  What we wear can most definitely influence people's reactions to us.

As far as treating other folks with respect, they're going to receive mine, until they show that they want/ deserve something else.

 

[Hate 20108]

1 hour ago, slorch said:

Related to the wearing of cowboy hats and getting different reactions, I work in the public.  Most often when I am out and about it is in khakis/ slacks and a polo with my company's logo.  Every once in a while, the dress shirt, tie, and possibly a jacket go on.  People act very differently and it is borderline creepy.  Store employees, who do not work for me greet me  differently, as in, they actually look up from what they are doing and extend a "Hello" or "Good morning!"  When I first started, I would do this once or twice a week; until I realized the semi-disruption it was causing.  What we wear can most definitely influence people's reactions to us.

As far as treating other folks with respect, they're going to receive mine, until they show that they want/ deserve something else.

 

Just don't wear gray slacks and you should be fine.

[PRONG HORN 3146]