Originally Posted by AmerLisa

Saw a program that hubs downloaded from UKNova "Ten Worst/Best Places to Live In The UK" Harrogate was the third best place to live....

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

And they have a really, really shite footy team.

Originally Posted by Bob

well they ain't the only place

Originally Posted by Sarah

I'm currently waitressing for my sister-in-law, there are two kinds of people I'm waiting on - nice and polite and grateful and knobheads. Yet everyone I'm waiting on is Jewish, just because some are, quite honestly, the most demanding, rude, slovenly, arrogant, people I've ever come across, some of whom literally have their heads an inch from their plates whilst they trough like animals on food. Some others are the most wonderful, lovely, well-mannered people I've ever had the pleasure to meet. If I was to become Anti-Semetic as a result it would be a dis-service to those people and I would be the one losing out. Some tip me $1 for two weeks of service and some tip $40.
Bottom line is, there idiots everywhere.

As for kids, adults sometimes act and talk about the younger generation like they had nothing to do with them. Most of you have kids, its your responsibilty that they grow up treating people in a way that would make you proud.

P.S - always be nice to your waitress/waiter or I promise you, we remember your faces and yes (although I've never done it) we do spit in your food if you're a asshole.

Originally Posted by antjen

i believe tipping is hugely responsible for customers thinking they can treat waiters/waitresses like crap, as they have some kind of hold over them - money!!!!

Ant

Originally Posted by Partystar

Never really thought of it that way, you could be right...some people are such bast*rds.

Originally Posted by Rompers

A friend's wife works as a waitress. He told me it's not uncommon for a group to put a pile of dollars in the middle of the table. Every time the waitress does something they don't like, a dollar is removed. What's left at the end of the meal is the tip.

Originally Posted by Rompers

A friend's wife works as a waitress. He told me it's not uncommon for a group to put a pile of dollars in the middle of the table. Every time the waitress does something they don't like, a dollar is removed. What's left at the end of the meal is the tip.

Originally Posted by AmerLisa

As usual....

Originally Posted by izibear

Amerlisa, I am absolutely shocked and appalled at the lack of manners of kids here, and I live in the south where they're supposed to have them, never mind tradespeople who make appointments with you and then don't even bother to come out, wasting our time, and don't bother to call to apologize (a pet peeve of most Floridians, don't know if the rest of the country is like that).

When was the last time you were in the U.K., and a kid walked in your door, right past you, without even acknowledging you were there, headed for your refrigerator, helped himself to a drink and toddled off to your son's room to see if he was up? It doesn't happen with one kid. It happens with most of the neighborhood kids. And from experience, the wealthier the neighborhood, the worst the manners are.

Yes, many of my friends' kids are not like that. But, and this is just my 9 years' personal experience speaking, that is how the majority act in my, and others' homes down here.

Originally Posted by rushman

Seems I may not be in the minority after all!!

Originally Posted by AmerLisa

in fact I can't remember being inundated with "thank yous, pleases or pardon mes" at all. Perhaps I was in the wrong part of the country?

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

What you rush into peoples house and take their drinks too?!

Originally Posted by rushman

No, they probably thought you were a pratt!!

Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas

Or just another arrogant American in their "quaint little town"