I don't care what anyone says, I'm sticking to my two spaces after a full stop, and NOTHING is going to stop me! It's something that's so ingrained from my days of learning to type on an actual typewriter that there's no way I can change the habit. It's automatic now - hit full stop or any other sentence-ending punctuation and double tap the space bar. I just can't not do it!
I also remember writing my address at the top of letters. Do people not do that any more?
At work, we call each other by first names in the staff room and by Mr, Mrs, Miss whatever in front of students. You do slip up occasionally, and the students generally all call us just Sir or Miss (regardless of marital status) these days. It bugs me, but I doubt there's anything I can do about it. I am tempted to just start calling them "student" when they do that, but I'm not sure they'd get the point I'm trying to make. Even the principal is referred to by first name when not in front of students.
I remember when I was at uni, straight out of high school - I went around calling all my lecturers Dr. XXX or Professor YYY, I couldn't use their first name, except for a few that my father worked with and I'd grown up around. It spun me out when my peers used their first names in conversation with them - I just couldn't cope!
I am clearly old fashioned as I didn't even know that you don't put two spaces after a fullstop. How do you possibly change that in your brain anyway and why don't you?
I have a number of young girls work for me and am regularly reminded how 'old' (I'm 33) I am! I just cannot for the life of me use predictive text, just can't do it!
My nan, bless her, has gone blind in the last few years, but she still serves a proper pot of tea, with china cups and a milk jug every time I go there. And the teapot never gets washed. My brother put it in the sink with the dishes a few years ago and boy, was there drama I love it- there is something ritualistic and comforting about serving tea like that.
I agree LR... I make a pot every morning - & I have a green jug with white spots that I put my milk in... I love a pot of tea... I always make a pot whenever I have visitors also - usually for myself I make a pot twice a day. It's the ritual that is comforting I think...
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I love it- there is something ritualistic and comforting about serving tea like that.
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