You know when you’re the only person inside the lift. And the door’s about to close. And then you spot someone running to get in. Now, even though you have the perfect excuse to let the lift door close automatically - oh, i didn’t see ya- you still bother to hold the ‘open door’ button to let the poorling in? Well, inside comes the uncle/aunty with an obnoxious expression on their face - as if they did you a favor by gracing you with their company. Sheesh. Not even a nod of thanks let alone the utterance of the two most difficile words in English - thank you. People are rude, man. They’re too effin rude.
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February 1, 2008 at 8:42 am
Hey this happens to me a lot!
I spent long hours on the toilet seat wondering why they never thank me. And I concluded that it’s probably because most of them don’t understand that there is a button that can be used to open the door from the inside.
Plus this is a big city with big egos so you can’t expect much!
February 1, 2008 at 10:38 am
The guy who will thank you cordially or formally or whatever, you can assume that may be he/she has passed some days in may be Europe or other western countries. I detected the thing,, a person who even at least lives for a month there, adopts some of these kinds of manners like “Thank You”, “sorry” etc.
February 1, 2008 at 12:28 pm
That’s not right xanthis! It’s like you are saying that only Westerners have manners as such and we learn from them. That is not true at all! Many of my friends (including Shoib here) are well mannered people. And most of them have never been anywhere out of BD.
February 1, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I think it’s bcuz the ppl who are helped, mostly elders, find it ‘uncomfortable’ to thank us… Most importantly, they really don’t know if they shud b thankin us & how!!!
I’ve seen my dad, mom & sis completely go all ’stunned’ if a younger person wud keep the lift open for them to get in. They basically overlook the fact that they hav been helped, & stand like strangers throughout! Reason? Cuz they r somewhat afraid of the do’s-&-don’ts of thanking a STRANGER lmao!
February 1, 2008 at 2:15 pm
You got point. I said some regional influence though, I think these are cared by comparatively sharper people. In case of sharpness of a person, region & age don’t matter I guess. On the other hand, what you told of, aged people sometime feel weird to thank younger people regarding these things, this is also true. This is not like none of them detected this courtesy done to them, but that (unknown) complex doesn’t let them thank.
And younger people should have no hesitation to thank I think.
February 1, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Dear Redkid!
Not for a single time I said only westerns have manners. Why it’ll be like that? Particularly history of America is no older than 250 years, that means this far far younger than the history of Puran Dhaka. You misunderstood me
February 2, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Yeah xanthis i realized that rereading over what you said. Sorry. (See I’m nice :P)
And what Sidr is very true. It probably happens so because most of us youngsters never consider helping others (or so the elders think.)
Do I make sense? I have no idea. It must be all the jhalmuri!
February 2, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Ah well, You do! Even with the jhaalmuree
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