It is curious how often sympathy for the old and infirm takes a form. which actually humiliates them. Their friends, with good will, sometimes lean forward to 

rearrange their neckwear, touching their hair or patting their faces--things they would never presume to do, unasked, to one of their contemporaries. An equally 

humiliating habit is to talk about old people in front of them as if they were not there, discussing their health.

  It is now universally accepted that children should be encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves in order to develop their brains and muscles, but so few 

people today seem to have time to allow the elderly the same means of keeping their minds and muscles active. They perform. innumerable services for the old that they 

would be much better left to do, even with a struggle, for themselves.

  Convenient flats, "motherly" visitors, or organized entertainments cannot make up for the fundamental need which must be satisfied--the need to retain to the end 

of life human dignity and the respect of one's fellows.

Many people are not aware that it is rather rude to ______.

Guest: ______.

Clerk: Certainly. Do you have a reservation?

Guest: Yes. The name is Morales. Mr. and Mrs. Morales.

Clerk: Here we are. For five nights. Could you fill in the registration card, please? And I'll need your credit card.

Susan: I'm going to the cinema this evening.

Gordon: ______ ?

Susan: It's a Western: "Cowboy Comes Home".

Customer: ______ if you'd serve me as quickly as possible as I've got an appointment at two fifteen.

Waiter: I'll do my best, Madam.

Conversation between two strangers at a party.

Chester: Hello, I'm Brian Chester. Let me get you some more to drink.

Jackson: Not at the moment, thank you.

Guest: Have you a single room for tonight and tomorrow night with a telephone and shower?

Clerk: We haven't any rooms with a shower free just now, but there's a bathroom available on each floor.

Guest: ______ 

Elizabeth (Treading on someone's foot. ): ______ . I hope I haven't hurt you.

Jordan: It's all fight.

Telephone enquiry Clerk: Lost property department. Can I help you?

Phone caller: ______ I left it on the "Margate Mermaid" when we cross from Olsten Yesterday morning.

Speaker A: Did you have a good crossing?

Speaker B: ______. It was really rough and I'm not a good sailor.

Bob: Can I help with your luggage?

Mary: ______

Speaker A: Are you feeling better now?

Speaker B: ______