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Marianne Haney Brennan on the importance of manners today ~\n\n"We need to get back to being kind to each other. . .we're in a sad state of affairs right now and it breaks my heart. And that's why I teach etiquette from A to Z. I don't care. You know what? Time goes on but manners don't change. Manners are manners. Whether they were the 1800s or they're the 2019."\n\nMarianne Haney Brennan, Etiquette Coach, and host Andy Ockershausen in studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town speaking and I wanted to explain to her, this is not an interview. We are having a conversation. Marianne Brennan, welcome to Our Town.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tAndy I am so just excited to be here and honored. I can't tell you anything else other than that.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell I'm afraid to say Haney because nobody will know what that mean.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tOh no, I love it call me Haney.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut you know, Marianne Haney. Marianne is local, a local girl. As a matter of fact, she's fifth generation Washingtonian and her daughter is now six generation. I'm only third and I feel like a newcomer. Haney, it's amazing to see you and you look great.\nMarianne Haney Brennan is Fifth Generation Washingtonian\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tOh my gosh.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd I've have known you for so long and follow your many different careers. But this one now is made for you, etiquette.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tEtiquette. It is.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd you have a class in Georgetown. Where do you teach?\nEtiquette Coach | Custom Classes for Schools and Corporations\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tNo, actually I go all over. I custom make my classes. I'll do anything that parents want me to do. I've actually in the last six months been called in to places like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney to talk to the young guys.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tTo the guys.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tAbout proper dressing, shined shoes, all that good stuff that has seemed to be lost in the shuffle.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tI don't think so Marianne. Because guys need help too.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tOh totally.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAs you well know, this etiquette is not just important to the young ladies, but I found it's true that most men are very rude and they need etiquette. And these companies you mentioned are big, big companies.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tBig companies, yeah.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tSo you don't travel to school, you travel you.\nEpidemic of Undisciplined Children\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tWell because I'm sort of connected in the Catholic school system, being a Catholic graduate, I know a lot of people in that realm. I was trying to get into some of the public schools, but it's a little tougher to get in there. There's so many rules and regulations and they all need it. Listen, we have an epidemic, epidemic of undisciplined children. And I don't want to sound negative or anything but-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tNo it's not negative. It's important.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tI was sitting and having some yogurt around the corner here before I came over, and I'm watching people who are sitting with each other having lunch and they've got headphones on and they're not even in conversation.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tYou're preaching to the choir with me. They don't pay attention.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tNot at all. No. And part of the problem is we're all moving too fast. We're moving too fast. We've got too many electronic things going on. Nobody wants to take time out to say hello or smile or be considerate.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tYou know, I'll tell you my story in a minute, but we were just talking to Tom Davis who has been a congressman and did a great job for northern Virginia, talking to the fact that social media is really, the culprit has changed our world, forever.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tAbsolutely. Absolutely.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tI don't think we'll ever go back.\nMarianne Haney Brennan:\tAbsolutely.