Why is everyone so miserable in London? And don’t blame the recession…it has been this way for years!! Rushing and pushing past me, with no word of thanks when I jump out of the way or hold the door open for them. Just a distracted, moody grunt or screwed up expression pointing my way. If I enter London on a high, I’m sure to exit on a low!
I love ‘people watching’, I seem to be the only one who actualy notices other people, I love looking at different fashion tastes, book choices or eating habits. But everyone else just stares aimlessly out of the window in a trance-like state, or falls asleep to escape the awful view!
I often wonder how it’s classed as one of the top cities in the world. Where is the friendliness? What happened to treat others how you would like to be treated? I used to believe in karma, but after years and years of being polite and friendly to people, only to be scoured at, makes me wonder sometimes.
At least I know I am better than that, why should I take out something that has happened to me during the day on a totally innocent person? I wont, I will smile, nod and say thank you if anyone is friendly to me.
Today a girl said “thank you very much” to me, for helping her carry her push-chair off the bus…I was astounded…and it made me realise it’s because I’m constantly helping people but never receive any gratitude.
Come on people, please don’t forget your manners.
How right you are!
However, this is not a London problem.. it is most cities in the UK and abroad such as New York, the problem is the current climate of not picking up other peoples bad behaviour, if I open the door for someone and they don’t say thank you… I explain in a patronising voice… Thankyouuuuuu? this is usually enough to embarrass a response…. or of course get stabbed!
We can either collectively ignore the problem or tackle it through our own behaviour or like me…. just move out of London and leave it to the rest of the animals!
That’s one of the reasons I find it socially difficult living in London because of how impolite and unsocial they are, real reason Londoners are rude because of their poor upbringing, lack of general education on how to respect other people and full of prejudice (they deny this.) As one of those few polite people like myself who live in London I’ve learned to be strong over their rudeness by telling myself “No worries, I’ll never see you again!” towards the prejudiced or unfriendly Londoners because thismessage to myself is totally true.