@rashida Well, thank you!

I can’t recall specifically meeting a Canadian but if things are as you say I’m sure the meeting would go well.

After some responses - all positive - and reconsidering parts of the initial post I’m thinking how important simple courtesies are. My mother, and most of the mothers of my friends, would not hesitate to remind any of us, in that gaggle of young boys from our neighborhood, to be polite and mind our manners. We would often roll our eyes but quietly comply.

I’m sensing that doesn’t happen today as kids don’t appear to be concerned, or aware of courtesies. Courtesy is kind of a social lubricant, allowing us to move among others with minimum fuss. It’s also a kind of leadership that we older folks can exhibit for all the younger ones. Maybe we can’t do much or possibly even support ourselves without assistance but we can be courteous. I don’t mean being flowers or wimpy but human beings are still important despite their most productive period of life being in the past. That will happen to everyone eventually.