Quoting: lin
The same Polish friend says that she finds it funny when English people say thank you to bus drivers when we get off the bus . She finds it odd that we thank some one that we have paid to do a job for just doing the job they are being paid to do .
This is clearly provincial behaviour, we certainly don't do this in London. :)
Quoting: Puzzler
Personally, I am always taken aback in Poland by the old and not so old ladies who seem to think that they have every heavenly right and privilege to sit on any seat they please on the bus or tram. They may get quite snotty and even insulting when a young person or just a non-elderly male passenger doesn't let them have the seat (comments such as: 'Nice manners! Is it your parents who have taught you them?' 'Complete lack of culture!' 'What kind of young people do we have?' 'Wow, what a great gentleman!')
However, we could do with much more of this in London. Here, no one dares challenge bad-mannered passengers in case they threaten to "stab you up blud" or whatever. :(
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