Do You you politely thank the Postman for delivering your mail and the bus driver?

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carlislelass wrote: »

seem to thank everyone, good manners cost nothing..even it seems old fashioned now.

It damn well ought not to be old fashioned!!!

Peoples lack of manners is my major bug-bear and one thing that is guaranteed to get me hopping mad :mad:

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3plus1 wrote: »

I also like the way that all bus drivers wave at each when they're driving (although this isn't restricted to bus drivers - taxi drivers and driving instructors do it too). I don't know why, but it makes me smile.

I love that too! I wanted to start waving at other Micra drivers, but thought I'd be more likely to get funny looks and rude gestures in return.

delain

3plus1 wrote: »

I always thank bus drivers. They get me where I need to be, they're helpful if you don't know where you're going ("I'll give you a shout when it's your stop"), they have a natter with anyone who wants one (makes life a bit less lonely, I'm sure) and they look out for your personal safety. When I was younger, there was a bit of trouble on a bus I was on and the driver wouldn't let the guy get off at the same stop as the woman so he couldn't follow her home. He didn't need to do that, but he may well have prevented something awful from happening. Drivers go above and beyond sometimes.

I also like the way that all bus drivers wave at each when they're driving (although this isn't restricted to bus drivers - taxi drivers and driving instructors do it too). I don't know why, but it makes me smile.

I've always wondered if thanking the driver is a local tradition though, as I don't really see it much in England when I go down there.

A bus driver stopped my ex from following me off the bus, after he had threatened to chuck him off the bus in the middle of nowhere (it had quite an out of the way route) and he saved me sanity! Unfortunately ex and i were going to a family court advisor thingy but it gave me a head start to run there so that he didn't catch up with me when i was alone.

once when i was really ill another bus driver, one i saw regularly found my phone on the bus, recognised it and rang my mum to say i saw your daughter she left her phone on the bus but she looked half dead! If he hadn't done that my mum would have worried for days.

and we have another bus driver that brings chocolates at christmas for people to help themselves.

I'm in england and almost everyone says thank you to the bus driver. But then we do have some nice ones here

queen_vi

yer i always thank

• Postmen
• Bus Drivers
• Taxi/Minicab drivers
• Dustbin men Sales people in shops
• Dentist
• Doctor
• Hairdresser

mrcol1000

I say thank you to everyone. It is quite a bizarre thing giving someone money for a service or goods and then thanking them. It doesn't take long.
I wonder what people who live in London do concerning thanking the bus driver as you normally leave from the middle doors. My OH mother who has lived in London all her life always without fail shouts down the bus thank you.
In New York I brought something in a dodgy looking 24/7 type shop and said thanks and the person serving me gave me a stunned looked and as I was leaving I heard them saying to the other cashier how cute English people were.

seven-day-weekend

Bus driver
Post person if I see them
Sales Assistants (Shops)
Dentist
Doctor
Bank Staff
Anyone who provides me with decent customer service
Most people apart from bin men who round here (West Midlands) are rude, arrogant and don't empty your bin half the time. Although if I get the occasional polite one I will thank them too.

biscit

I thank anyone who has just done something for me. It's a reflex action with me to say thanks when someone hands me my change, parcel, lets me off the bus. Whether I sound polite when doing is not for me to say.

I have to have had a really bad experience not to say it.

I can't understand people who don't automatically say it.

marleyboy

I always say "Please" & "Thank you" for anything, it is how I was brought up. Indeed I taught my kids to say likewise, from a very young age. A little courtesy does go a long way...........Still, it doesn't work with my bank manager though

DebtHater

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many people I drive in my taxi on a daily basis who dont say thankyou or goodbye or anything as they are getting out?

Manners just dont seem to mean anything to a lot of people nowadays

notbryan.ryan

It's pretty sad when words like "please" and "thanks" are a rarity isn't it?

I always thank the bus driver as a reflex action. I think I even thanked the one who sent me flying into my seat the other day by his scary level of accelleration!!