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Are the words “manners,” “etiquette” and “respect” gone, or am I living in the past? I entered a 7-Eleven to pay for gas and there were 11 so-called gentlemen in the checkout line. Not one said, “Lady, go ahead of me.” So I took my 81-year-old body to the end of the line. How times have changed!
Dorothy Wagner
Salt Lake City
