dgk wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:04:34 -0700, Phil Kane
> <Phil.Kane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:45:03 -0400, Obwon <Obwon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>> It's a tough racket, no question. But a little more courtesy toward
>>>> the paying customers by SOME of the most ornery cabbies would be
>>>> welcomed for sure.
>>>>
>>> Yeah... and that goes for waiters, doormen,
>>> maids, mechanics, repairmen, sales clerks,
>>> supervisors, politicians, their aides and just
>>> about everyone else.
>> Others here have castigated me about my statement(s) about "New York
>> Attitudes" but in all honesty I have never experienced discourtesy
>>from the above occupations in either Northern California or the
>> ****tland, OR Metro area, where I have lived for the last 40 years.
>
> I don't have a whole lot of experience with maids but here in NYC I
> haven't had much problem with the rest of the above. Most folks are as
> decent to me as I am to them so we get along just fine. And everyone
> is entitled to a bad day once in a while.
Eh, there are assholes everywhere. Sure, look at California. How many
places elect creepy, groping offspring of nazis? The highway patrol is
smug, the people are anti-social, and the air sucks thanks to the
self-absorbed obsession with automobiles. In other words, there's no
way hell you can miss the fact that California has more assholes than a
sphincter inspection center.
It's a stupid debate anyway. The point is it's obnoxious (though ironic
because it's *rude*) to go to a forum full of New Yorkers, and then
complain that New Yorkers are rude.
(Come to think of it, most of the rude people here aren't in New York.
They're mostly out of the city, and usually in other states.)
> I'm hoping to have more experience with maids in the future. I'll let
> everyone know how it turns out.
To be on topic for a change, the only profession that seems almost
universally rude in New York nowadays is Subway (formerly token) booth
clerk. Did the MTA hand out memos telling them to act like assholes or
something?
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