You can never be too polite! Like the guy currently standing in front of me at the Lidl cash register, who is saying sorry in advance by buying a single tulip with his sixpack of cheap beer.
Two jolly old women enter the overfilled train. “I’m going to sit here”, says the fat one, poking a guy with a huge suitcase. “I’m going to sit over here”, answers the one with the glasses and motions a tiny Filippina. The […]
“Four ninety-five please”, says the scrawny woman at the strawberry stand. “Here you are”, I say as I hand her a fiver, straightening a dog-ear on it. “That’s polite”, she says, taking the money. “My mom told me it’s impolite to give […]