Cabs, courtesy, and conventioneers

8/29/2003

THE ROYALS are coming to Boston, that is the royal Democratic conventioneers are coming and the city's cabbies are being instructed how to bow and scrape. The whole idea sounds oddly elitist to me. It is OK to offend daily commuters, but let the Democrats come to town and suddenly it is chic to be polite? I do not know about you and the convention planners, but I was taught good manners are not something you bring out for special occasions.

It is a real shame that cab drivers have not been instructed to treat you and me with the same civility they are supposed to show conventioneers who will be here for a week.

LINDA S. MARKARIAN

Longmeadow