Wham, cheap thrills now?Wham wrote:OK, BREAK IT UP - Before the color wars started the last thing that i read was that Happy Earth Girl girl was telling Saphire that she was wrong - and i was kind of enjoying it.
you gotta be joking here Wimh...Wind In My Hair wrote:i sometimes do. they usually refuse to walk through, and insist on taking the door and letting me go first. like i said, of course there are those who don't have good manners but in my experience these are the minority and what touches me is that young boys are doing the same, which suggests to me that they are learning this from watching how their dads behave. i am very encouraged.Rose_YG wrote:Try the other way around, open the door for them and see what happens...
ps: and if i did hold the door for a person or group of persons, whether male or female, it would be cos i wanted to, and not to get a thank you. who cares whether they do or not if you're really just trying to facilitate traffic flow? id rather not hold the door open than hold it open then get immediately ticked off that no one said thanks. life is too short to get frustrated at little things like that.
I would just take it as a custom thing or maybe metropolitan syndrome as I found it in Tokyo, New York and other big cities.Eric from the Netherlands wrote:you gotta be joking here Wimh...Wind In My Hair wrote:i sometimes do. they usually refuse to walk through, and insist on taking the door and letting me go first. like i said, of course there are those who don't have good manners but in my experience these are the minority and what touches me is that young boys are doing the same, which suggests to me that they are learning this from watching how their dads behave. i am very encouraged.Rose_YG wrote:Try the other way around, open the door for them and see what happens...
ps: and if i did hold the door for a person or group of persons, whether male or female, it would be cos i wanted to, and not to get a thank you. who cares whether they do or not if you're really just trying to facilitate traffic flow? id rather not hold the door open than hold it open then get immediately ticked off that no one said thanks. life is too short to get frustrated at little things like that.
Eric
I don't see any form of disrespect shown here by Eric from his comment above.Cuchu wrote:I would just take it as a custom thing or maybe metropolitan syndrome as I found it in Tokyo, New York and other big cities.Eric from the Netherlands wrote:you gotta be joking here Wimh...Wind In My Hair wrote: i sometimes do. they usually refuse to walk through, and insist on taking the door and letting me go first. like i said, of course there are those who don't have good manners but in my experience these are the minority and what touches me is that young boys are doing the same, which suggests to me that they are learning this from watching how their dads behave. i am very encouraged.
ps: and if i did hold the door for a person or group of persons, whether male or female, it would be cos i wanted to, and not to get a thank you. who cares whether they do or not if you're really just trying to facilitate traffic flow? id rather not hold the door open than hold it open then get immediately ticked off that no one said thanks. life is too short to get frustrated at little things like that.
Eric
But I find it highly ironic Eric that you made the above comment towards a local person's comment when in the mistreated maids' thread where it was discussed basically about basic human rights to receive what they deserve (regarding pay and days off) and to be treated with basic respect at least (that is to be treated as humans, not as stress punching bags for example) when you said that we non-locals shouldn't make comments that would imply as if we know better which I don't reckon is the point actually..., again I just find it highly ironic...
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