‘Raised Right’: People List 50 Characteristics That Indicate Someone Has Good Morals

We have similar thing as prom in high school, a dance but also attended by close family. My classmate’s older brother asked me to dance for daughter-father song. They were our neigbours so he knew my father is probably drunk on the sofa rather than attending this rather important event (he was). I was grateful to him, otherwise I would be the only girl sitting there like a bum. Of course some other girls had no father at all but uncles usually stepped in, but all men in my family were drunks and didn’t care. I hope that boy is doing well, it was so very kind of him.

I think some sweethearts are born like that. But the confidence to act it out- a beautiful miracle & good parenting

This made me cry a little and smile at the same time.

What a lovely young man! I'm sure he made her evening.

I actually met a friend of mine in a similar manner. It was at the Otakon formal ball. He wanted to dance, but his (at the time) boyfriend basically refused to get up out of the seat. I danced with him, then later 'forced' his boyfriend up and taught him how to dance so the two of them could dance together. The ironic part is that I actually don't know how to dance.

Erma Bombeck (an American comedy writer) wrote about parents' night at her son's school. The coach described her son as extremely helpful, cleaning up the locker room after the players, washing towels, putting the gear away, cheering on the players. Erma couldn't reconcile this with the boy she knew, who would leave his damp towel on the bathroom floor, never spoke, never put his own things away. It was very cute, the way she wrote it. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that our "home" and "away" manners and behaviors can be vastly different.

Hope he's cautious about whom he helps!

If this parent had said something about their kid providing free window treatments to people in need, I would say “Not all heroes wear drapes.”

Treat others how you want be treated. Yes there are limit for that, but no need to railroad others beforehand.

He has a good mum.

I recently wrote an email to the head office of my local supermarket chain. I complained about one of the managers there because I overheard him berating a young staff member, she couldnt have been older than 16yrs. He had this girl in tears in front of all the customers. This bloke was like a 50yr old man intimidating a school girl WTF!! 2 days later I get a call from the store manager and he knows exactly who I'm talking about and chewed his a**e out. He still works there but doesn't abuse his staff anymore

Totally right, they are the people that really keep things running in this world. My upmost respect for everyone working these jobs.

Baristas just trying to do our job with what we have due to being our of things, truck not coming in, equipment being down, basically things out of our control and they take it out on us like we did this on purpose

I read a lot of posts about people treating waitstaff poorly, and I've never experienced this with anyone. Conversely, I've been to hoitytoity restaurants where the staff has treated me and my companion with disdain and never understood why. (short story-my sister and I went to our brother's classy restaurant before dinner hours and the Maîtress gave us every excuse why she wouldn't seat us, and I assume it was because we had just come off a hike and we're not dressed to the 9s. We just wanted to sit at the bar, not a table (and FYI, I had sprained my ankle on the hike, so I was limping) After listening to her reasons for turning us away, I told her to go talk to the chef who was expecting us. Which she did. When she returned she was most apologetic, nearly falling over herself to accommodate me and my sister, seating us at the bar as I had requested. Our brother came out from the kitchen, and as it before dinner hour, gave me ice for my ankle and served us a sumptuous meal. I've also experienced waitstaff who flirt with customers for tips and who will humiliate customers when called out. Waitstaff can be jerks, too.

I cannot upvote this enough. Having worked in retail (and loving it BTW!), I can tell you I'm an over-tipper and will always give the staff the benefit of the doubt when there's an issue. Those kinds of jobs are hard enough without people being jerks and making it harder.

I was lobbing a tennis ball back and forth with a friend over a speed bump on a road in her neighborhood. Managed to hit the ball just right that it hit a Chevrolet Celebrity drivers side mirror and broke it. My friend ran...I walked up to the door of the home, asked the man if it was his car and that I broke the mirror. I gave him my fathers name, my name and our phone number. Told him to contact me with the cost of the mirror and I would get it replaced. He called my father, gave him a price of $67+ and my father gave me the cash to give to the man. I walked up to the door, knocked, handed him the money. He smiled and put the money back in my hand and said it was my reward for being so honest. I tried to give it back to my dad, he refused...said I earned it. Still didn't stop me from feeling guilty about breaking the mirror.

That little s**t probably grew up with little discipline and got away with anything so doesn't understand how to behave. The first lad is such a wonderful kid. And kudos to you for not yelling at him and understanding accidents happen!

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Well o course, she is a crash test dummy after all!

I really struggle to imagine how "wrong" someone's upbringing would have to be to consider it acceptable to leave a mess behind.

nothing pisses me off more than people leaving an absolute mess behind. we were in a cat cafe, and there was a family with two kids, they left food on the floor and drinks spilled on the table, it looked like there was a fight between angry rabbits trying to win a popcorn bowl. it was disgusting.

I trash my own place as much as I like (I don't like it but I'm a scatterbrain) but I will be damned if I leave anywhere else a mess. In fact in order to clean my own house I have to pretend it's not mine and I'm a guest. The psyche is bizarre in its logic sometimes. Then on top of that I've had to clean public toilets. Someone s**t on the floor, tracked it around, and didn't even bother to TRY and clean it up or even power through her embarrassment to tell a staff member. A GROWN FREAKING ADULT. I just don't know sometimes...

My #1 rule rule in life: Clean up your own sh!t. Non-negotiable.

Pre pandemic we went to a concert that most people were over the age of 50. Not wanting to be shoved in the stairs or elevator we waited for the crowds to clear and gathered our drink cups. With the lights on and people gone we were shocked at all the beer cans the ushers had to clean up so we gathered our stuff and the two rows in front of us. The elderly usher was very thankful and it only took us 5 minutes. It's amazing how disgusting some supposed mature adults are.

I had wonderful in laws, also. God rest their souls.

First time I met my in-laws I made Christmas dinner. I basically made two, as I made both turkey and goose, roast chestnut stuffing and regular stuffing, etc. Then cleaned up after myself. It impressed them and I got to make some things I had always wanted to make.

My first date with my husband we went to a park with my dog. The dog was still young and not the brightest. He crawled under a seat (for shade I believe) on this dock we'd walked out to the end of. The seat hung out over the water and he tumbled straight into the marsh. He stunk so bad. My date, found a faucet on the grounds helped me splash water over my dog. We didn't get all of the dirty water off. We drove home with a wet stinking dog trying to climb into the front seat with us. My dog had long hair and weighed 90lbs and had a habit of flinging droop. I thought I'd never see that guy again. 39 years ago on Valentines day he asked me to marry him.

The best kind of in-laws

That's too close.