Friday, March 07, 2008

How English are we!

I was just in a lift and another person got in wanting who didn't want to go quite as far as me. When he left the lift he said 'thanks'. Why?

4 comments:

RichardB said...

It's our inbuilt predisposition to politeness.

I went our searching for signs of grace today and in one journey two drivers stopped to let me out when they didn't need to. Then later another driver bothered to tell me that I had left a key in my bike's topbox.

Such nice people us Brits!

Andy said...

Why not?

Have you read 'Notes from a Small Island'?

I'm currently reading 'Watching the English' (thanks Glyn!), an anthropological view at our culture. Very interesting...

Mitchenstein said...

My friend from the Ukraine likes to step on people's toes on the underground so that they say sorry.

That's potentially quite a dangerous game though...

Ann said...

At the Babysong training weekend, the leaders (from Norway) couldn't get used to having to keep saying "please" when they asked us to do something....not really part of their vocab evidently !