5 Responses to "Details Matter"
I totally agree! If you are required to reply by letter then you should know how to write one properly-something I made sure both my sons could do.
Also…I paid some money into our account in person at the bank today, and the teller-who, might I add, I have never seen before in my life-as I was walking away, said :”Thanks Sam!” Really???
Ha! It must be a British thing – to take umbrage at the use of strangers using one’s first name. Most of the folks here don’t seem to care, but I remember my mother being very upset at (go figure!) a bank teller calling her, Cathy. For one thing, while it was her legal name, Mum NEVER went by Catherine and the assumption that she was a Cathy just undid her. I remember her turning and snapping in that “imperious” tone that goes along with RP, “That’s MRS. E— to you!” Oh, Mum could be quite regal and scary when she wanted…..
She was, indeed, a true lady. I sometimes think she despaired of me, her little half-breed, LOL!