Maybe you need some help forcing people to be civil…

Maybe you don’t feel comfortable handing a rude person a card that says “You realize that you’re in public, right?” when they’re clipping their toe nails at work – in the cubicle next to you. Or maybe you just don’t have a card on you.

Maybe that rude person is a loved one, but you can’t bring yourself to tell them that they shouldn’t litter by handing them a card that says “I think you left something back there.”

Maybe you just need a little help forcing people to be civil. Well, Commando Civility is here to help! We can send them an anonymous email (from commandocivility[at]gmail.com) that includes the appropriate message and link to the blog. They’ll never know that it came from you (we can blind copy you on the email if you wish).

Maybe the offender doesn’t do email. For a limited time, we will send an uncivil person of your choice a postcard with a Commando Civility message. Again, completely anonymous. Just send an email to commandocivility[at]gmail.com with the person’s name and address and which phrase you want on the postcard. The cost of the postcard and postage is on us for the first 30 requesters. In other words, it’s free.

Please note that phrases (either email or postcard) are limited to the ones you can find on this site. Please don’t suggest any phrases. By submitting or suggesting phrases other than those found on this website (via comments to this website, emails, or otherwise) you agree to allow Commando Civility to use the phrase or the idea, in whole or in part, on future cards, blogs, or merchandise (which may be used for commercial purposes) and relinquish any claim for such use. In other words, keep your clever phrases to yourself.

Your BlackBerry can’t love you back.

Your BlackBerry can’t love you back.” I’d love to leave one of these cards on my boss’ desk, but he’d know it was me. Everyone knows one of these people (perhaps very, very well – wink, wink). They are attached, always and forever, to their BlackBerries. In meetings, in the bathroom (disgusting) and even in bed. In fact, 60% of people admit to using their BlackBerry in bed. Makes me want to go buy more stock in RIM.

By the way a “digital yawn” is when someone checks their device (BlackBerry, cell phone, whatever) in reaction to someone else checking theirs. This is a contagious reaction; just as when someone else yawns, you yawn. Feel free to put that on Wikipedia – just credit commandocivility.com