The Offical Honey Do List

[Selenay]

Originally Posted by Gemme

Very true!

I prefer it in the showing common courtesy, verbal, add on before or after the demand, kind of way.

Others are certainly welcome to have it their way (Burger King, anyone?) but I see it as a respect issue or a lack thereof.

I didn't say please.
This was, in part, due to the fact that I know I will not be brought a cookie, unless my partner can shove it through the screen and if he does that, I'm gonna be saying a lot more than, "Please."

And
I often forget, "Please."

"Thank you," I remember, tho, usually.

But,
my partner and I got it good that way.

He gets me.
He goes with it.
We got a good thang going on, cuz that's how we do.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Selenay

I didn't say please.
This was, in part, due to the fact that I know I will not be brought a cookie, unless my partner can shove it through the screen and if he does that, I'm gonna be saying a lot more than, "Please."

And
I often forget, "Please."

"Thank you," I remember, tho, usually.

But,
my partner and I got it good that way.

He gets me.
He goes with it.
We got a good thang going on, cuz that's how we do.

*shrug*

I was raised (I can hear my first year English college instructor's voice roaring "RAISED? What are you, cattle?!?" as I type this) in the deep South.

Please was mandatory. I guess the lesson stuck.

What works for others is fine. I was just surprised, and a bit dismayed, at finding that only one person sought to express it. Knowing that many of us are not in the same space or even time zone with our partners (I am one!), would make it more important, to me, to visually....because in this medium this is all we've got to go on....express my thoughts in the manner that I mean them. I try to keep the demanding limited to the bedroom.