Found this following one of those "most emailed links" having gone to NPR from the National Weather Service's Facebook post on the article "What if Dorothy Had A Smartphone". . . As a lifetime feature article reader, I do like these random ideas and articles -- when I don't find look up from the computer to find I've been reading for hours.
So, are people less polite? I remember noticing, when I was in Spain in the summer of 2001, that people there took time to chat before beginning a transaction in a store -- and I understood why people elsewhere thought US citizens rude. If that trend to the bottom line without even a little bit of politeness, that seems to be a bad thing.
Since I mentioned it, here's the tornado story: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148525605/tornado-tech-what-if-dorothy-had-a-smartphone
And here's a shout out to the NPR URL creators, who include the name of the article in the link. What an easy classification tool.
Photo of the day: Ice on the Bay -- Nicolet Bay Beach, Peninsula State Park, Door County, WI
So, are people less polite? I remember noticing, when I was in Spain in the summer of 2001, that people there took time to chat before beginning a transaction in a store -- and I understood why people elsewhere thought US citizens rude. If that trend to the bottom line without even a little bit of politeness, that seems to be a bad thing.
Since I mentioned it, here's the tornado story: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148525605/tornado-tech-what-if-dorothy-had-a-smartphone
And here's a shout out to the NPR URL creators, who include the name of the article in the link. What an easy classification tool.
Photo of the day: Ice on the Bay -- Nicolet Bay Beach, Peninsula State Park, Door County, WI
