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re: It amazes me how unusual common courtesy is to people in the north
Posted on 6/6/18 at 5:41 pm to TigersSEC2010
Posted on 6/6/18 at 5:41 pm to TigersSEC2010
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saying “yes ma’am/sir”,
This is the one that gets me the most. It's just natural for me to say it, but outside the south, you get funny looks when you say it to someone.
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Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:05 pm to AbitaFan08
Ah well frick it then I guess I made it up
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:14 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Mo Jeaux
You sound like one bitter a-hole.
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NYC
Checks out.
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:18 pm to TigersSEC2010
On a more "on topic" note, I've found that if you go outside the cities...even in New England or the west coast, people are usually pretty friendly.
I mean I get the same "frick off" vibe in Atlanta that I do in Boston or Chicago, but I also get just as many smiles, holding doors, etc. in upstate NY as I do here in the south.
I mean I get the same "frick off" vibe in Atlanta that I do in Boston or Chicago, but I also get just as many smiles, holding doors, etc. in upstate NY as I do here in the south.
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:25 pm to Centinel
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I mean I get the same "frick off" vibe in Atlanta that I do in Boston or Chicago
Back the last time I lived in Atlanta I would more head nods and the like from black guys than anybody else, probably from my eastern Arkansas vibe.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:28 pm to TigersSEC2010
They are a lot more racist up there too.
I was in PA for a week recently and heard 3 different people publicly make really racist comments, one of them shouted in the middle of the airport to the black girl at the gate.
I'd have to go back maybe a year to think of 3 incidents like that in Tennessee or Louisiana.
I was in PA for a week recently and heard 3 different people publicly make really racist comments, one of them shouted in the middle of the airport to the black girl at the gate.
I'd have to go back maybe a year to think of 3 incidents like that in Tennessee or Louisiana.
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:30 pm to TigersSEC2010
If you want to see the differences in levels of courtesy between folks from the South and the Northeast, go to where these two groups vacation - Florida theme parks like Universal and Disney.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:30 pm to Centinel
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You sound like one bitter a-hole.
Because I don’t think people are rude simply because they don’t say ma’am or sir? That’s odd. You sound narrow minded and judgmental.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:33 pm to TigersSEC2010
It's true. I thought the reverse when I was living down South in college. The North would do well to emulate the South.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:35 pm to Centinel
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On a more "on topic" note, I've found that if you go outside the cities...even in New England or the west coast, people are usually pretty friendly.
Shocker. You mean people that live in a place with a less harried pace of life are less harried? You’re probably one of those people that thinks all Parisians are rude because the guy rushing to a business meeting didn’t have time to respond to your broken French attempt to ask for directions to the Louvre.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:39 pm to Parmen
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The North would do well to emulate the South.
I’m pretty sure the South would do well to emulate the North in a couple areas too. Not important ones. Just things like education, healthcare, crime, etc.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:50 pm to Sao
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both places immediately asked about accent and if I were a Cowboys fan). Yeah, of course I am
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:53 pm to AbitaFan08
I agree with you about most of this north/south stuff, but people from mass tend to come off as pretty abrasive or aggressive.
they're not actually being rude, but it can seem that way.
they're not actually being rude, but it can seem that way.
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:53 pm to lsupride87
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I 100% think all the stories of “I held a door open up north and they were angry” “I said yes ma’am and she was insulted” are mainly bullshite fairy tale stories that got passed along
Really?
My wife got sneered at in St Louis for asking a lady in the grocery store where the garlic was at. For both asking the question and for using garlic.
Apparently, that's why the food in the midwest sucks.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:55 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Oh I absolutely agree with you on that. Go back to the first page of this thread and I said essentially that. I mean, the term “massholes” didn’t come from nowhere. 
They are much more curt than people from the south, but that’s not meant to be rude or disrespectful in their mind. They are generally very nice people.
They are much more curt than people from the south, but that’s not meant to be rude or disrespectful in their mind. They are generally very nice people.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:56 pm to Evil Little Thing
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I’ve said it on here before, but I expected Louisiana to be a lot more like The Waterboy before I moved here I was disappointed.
Oh there are parts. And they are a hundred percent water boy.
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:56 pm to TigersSEC2010
I traveled for about a decade for work and have been to 46 states. By far the most rude place that I've been (on multiple occasions) is Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love
This post was edited on 6/6/18 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 6/6/18 at 6:57 pm to nola000
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My wife got sneered at in St Louis for asking a lady in the grocery store where the garlic was at. For both asking the question and for using garlic. Apparently, that's why the food in the midwest sucks.
So why would the store even offer garlic then?
Posted on 6/6/18 at 7:02 pm to TigersSEC2010
People in the South often mistake bad manners for people who aren't accustomed to the slow pace of the South. I've traveled all over and I've never had anyone look at me strange for holding a door open or saying a simple "thank you".
Posted on 6/6/18 at 7:04 pm to AbitaFan08
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They are much more curt than people from the south, but that’s not meant to be rude or disrespectful in their mind. They are generally very nice people.
That's the flaw in the premise of the thread. Common courtesy is common everywhere, hence the word common. It's just that what is considered common courtesy varies depending on where we are.
It's considered polite to bow in some cultures. That doesn't make me rude for only shaking hands. It's considered polite to say sir and ma'am in the south. That doesn't make me rude for not using those terms in the PNW.
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