Ray S ECenFL
Silver Member
On occasion, when out detecting the local parks, some of the curious young children will approach you to see what you are doing. The younger ones, will ask " Hey mister, what are you doing?" I normally tell them that I am looking for coins. Some of them will tag along for a while to see if you find anything.
On two separate occasions, after digging up a penny, I handed it to one of the children. You would have thought I handed out gold coins by the expression on their faces. So each one of the four children wanted one also. No problem, I was finding lots of pennies that day, so I gave each child a penny, after digging it up. Not one said 'Thank you'. I thought that was rather odd.
So on another day, at another park, similar circumstances presented themselves and I decided to duplicate the situation. Again after handing out the pennies to the children, not one 'thank you' was uttered.
It must be me, but I always thought when someone gave you something it was a common courtesy to say "thank you".
Don't get me wrong, I am not an old grump or anything, but for some reason I found this rather unsettling.
Has this happened to anyone else?
On two separate occasions, after digging up a penny, I handed it to one of the children. You would have thought I handed out gold coins by the expression on their faces. So each one of the four children wanted one also. No problem, I was finding lots of pennies that day, so I gave each child a penny, after digging it up. Not one said 'Thank you'. I thought that was rather odd.
So on another day, at another park, similar circumstances presented themselves and I decided to duplicate the situation. Again after handing out the pennies to the children, not one 'thank you' was uttered.
It must be me, but I always thought when someone gave you something it was a common courtesy to say "thank you".
Don't get me wrong, I am not an old grump or anything, but for some reason I found this rather unsettling.
Has this happened to anyone else?