Clary wrote-
Quote:I've just come back from a week in Brighton and London and found random strangers polite and friendly. A lot of drivers thank you for waiting or letting them in, not every single one of course. All the shops and cafés I went into had civil and approachable staff. I think it's better than when I was a student in London in the 60s. So there.
Yes Clary- that's all very well for ladies with your obvious presence. A lot of men would consider it a privilege to be allowed to thank you for letting them in and as for waiting- what can I say--and, I feel sure, would be delighted to be civil and approachable at your gracious patronage under any circumstances.
Maybe you were a bit gawky and awkward in your early years. A lot of ladies, like the best wines, improve with age.
So you are not a typical case and it is impossible to draw any hard and fast conclusions from your recent experience.
I think I once let someone's tyres down but it wasn't a bike. There were four of them, I couldn't get into the boot; whitewalls on a flash car belonging to a chap who was dancing with a girl I fancied. She had to get a taxi home.
