A few years ago at Plurk, once my favorite micro-blogging, social networking tool, a plurk  caught my attention:

Someone asked civil and plastic what is the diff? Does it annoy you? When you learn someone is plastic?

My friend goes further to explain that

1. Civil is being nice and mannered while plastic is brown nosing. Does it annoy me? There are times of course I am only human.

2. Plastic has the element of design or wanting something. You trust less the plastic. Anyway, that is for me.

What I found interesting is a Plurk Friend’s response :most people confuse being polite and the social graces with “plastic”.

Imagine the following scenario.