I thought it would be good to record some of my fustrations that I, along with my wife Debbie, have both experienced in London. Although we both have daily experiences of rude and incompetent people, some stand out and are worth to be put down so that we can look back and laugh when we’re back in Sydney.

Just today for example, the bus driver wanted to argue with us. What about you may ask? Well….about letting us off the bus eventhough we had pressed the button, the sign was glowing “Stopping”. And we had both got up to stand by the door to get off. No he decided that he didn’t want to wait for the bus infront, that was parked in a bus zone, so he casually decided to continue on. When we approached the window, and told him that we wanted to get off, did he stop and appologise, no he argued with us about the bus stop and didn’t let us off till the next stop that was at least 500 metres from where we wanted to get off. We’ve adapted to accept the fact that people here are incompetent, rude and don’t care. What’s the point of arguing?

The other week I was in a hardware store and asked the person behind the counter where I could find some putty. After explaining to him what putty was, his response was, “Isn’t it on the shelf?”. I was dumb-founded! I mean I know that Britain lacks customer service but that statement took me back. I had to then reply with, “Would you show me which shelf”.

These and many more experiences has shown us a city that has become inconsiderate, rude and down right mean. I know that it’s not everyone, but my thoughts is that when you’re in a city with 60Mil people, you are going to encounter more rudeness and more incompetence.

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