stuckmojo wrote:as an aside, I'm just coming back from Milan, where I grew up, and I had the confirmation that compared to Northern Italians, Singaporeans seem not just happy, but ecstatic.
Seriously, the Milan Central Train station is probably the most depressing place on earth.
This is to say that due to my cultural bias I find Singaporeans not too bad. If anything, you just need to be a bit outgoing and smile and joke a bit and they'll smile back. It happens to me.
Try that in Torino or Milan and they'll probably tell you to XXXk off. Mostly in Paris too.
On that note the other day i received my first parking ticket ( not bad after 8 years) Sure i parked illegally but it was right in front of a restaurant with outside tables on a wide quiet side street, people eating at the table saw me park and walk into the restaurant with the family.local lad wrote:conservative asians usually keep to themselves ....
QRM wrote:On that note the other day i received my first parking ticket ( not bad after 8 years) Sure i parked illegally but it was right in front of a restaurant with outside tables on a wide quiet side street, people eating at the table saw me park and walk into the restaurant with the family.local lad wrote:conservative asians usually keep to themselves ....
Just as I was leaving the traffic warden was already there giving out the tickets, Anyway what irks me was not a single person stood up to try and warn me or others that a warden was handing out tickets.
If I was eating outside and saw what was happening I would rush in to the restaurant and warn fellow diners to watch out for the warden. They all just had blank looks on their face.
A very sad state of affairs there was letter in the local rag. A building is restricting washing down of the communal area to help save water, a blokes writes in rather than commend the management on being very civic minded he asks for a refund on his service fees as they are not using so much water. God help this place if there really was a serious crisis.
They wanted your parking space so told you the traffic warden was comingStrong Eagle wrote:QRM wrote:On that note the other day i received my first parking ticket ( not bad after 8 years) Sure i parked illegally but it was right in front of a restaurant with outside tables on a wide quiet side street, people eating at the table saw me park and walk into the restaurant with the family.local lad wrote:conservative asians usually keep to themselves ....
Just as I was leaving the traffic warden was already there giving out the tickets, Anyway what irks me was not a single person stood up to try and warn me or others that a warden was handing out tickets.
If I was eating outside and saw what was happening I would rush in to the restaurant and warn fellow diners to watch out for the warden. They all just had blank looks on their face.
A very sad state of affairs there was letter in the local rag. A building is restricting washing down of the communal area to help save water, a blokes writes in rather than commend the management on being very civic minded he asks for a refund on his service fees as they are not using so much water. God help this place if there really was a serious crisis.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Illegally parked and the waitress and at least a couple of patrons came running to warn me (and others also illegally parked) as soon as they saw the traffic warden driving up.
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