Date: 14 Feb 04 Adventures of Gamblegirl: Why are people so rude? To paraphrase a legendary man Kamahal "why are people so rude?" Especially over here. I always thought that the English were polite people, heck aren't they the land of good manners? Well apparently not. I was out and about this weekend, strolling down Convent Garden and just out and about. The amount of rude people that I ran into in one morning was enough to make me grit my teeth. I'm not like super polite myself. I will say that straight up. If people are rude to me, I usually sneak in a sharp comment in their direction to point out my displeasure. But seriously, when a woman literally knocks me to the side and doesn't say sorry or to check to see if I am okay, that's just rude. I think the last time someone was that rude to me was in Vienna when she slammed the door in my face and laughed. But it's other stuff that has caught me by surprise about the people over there. There's no such concept of customer service as I stand as listen to the two girls discuss why they didn't get anything for Valentines Day and how that's it, they are ditching the lad. After pointedly clearing my throat a couple times, I just rolled my eyes. That's all very well and done ladies but you are being paid to service me. If you want to chat, go for coffee one afternoon. What I also notice that people over here are very inconsiderate as well. Like when they step on the train, or get to a doorway, they just stop. Like, oh I'm in so it doesn't matter about the queue of people outside. It's just general thoughtlessness. Another thing is, they aren't adverse to pushing in. If there is a queue, or someone waiting before me, I try and do the right thing and point that out or join the queue. Over here, it's every person for themselves. It's wrong and extremely rude. I guess that's one thing that's disappointed me about over here. The extremely bad manners. It's not right and I don't care if it's a big cosmopolitan city, it's no excuse. In the dangerous risk of sounding like Carrie Bradshaw - but have we lost general good manners and consideration? Is it so hard to say sorry if you bump into someone. Apparently so. Gamblegirl