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- May 15, 2009
It has always been my experience that New Yorkers are polite to Intl tourists/travelers as opposed to each other or especially American tourists.
I spent years entertaining foreign business travelers in NYC and typically their reactions were similar to senioritas.
Not as much when the "Bob and Betty" from the Mid-West came to New York. I used to hear complaint after complaint, my favorite being "we just made it down to the platform and do you think the damned subway train waited for us?
When Bob would complain and say that would never happen in Ames, Iowa I would politely respond with "I didn't know they had a subway in Ames."
He would say, "well you know what I mean."
He was right and I did know what he meant but since he was a client he was spared my famous sarcasm
Think of it this way, "you can take the boy out of Iowa but you can never take the Iowa out of the boy."
I spent years entertaining foreign business travelers in NYC and typically their reactions were similar to senioritas.
Not as much when the "Bob and Betty" from the Mid-West came to New York. I used to hear complaint after complaint, my favorite being "we just made it down to the platform and do you think the damned subway train waited for us?
When Bob would complain and say that would never happen in Ames, Iowa I would politely respond with "I didn't know they had a subway in Ames."
He would say, "well you know what I mean."
He was right and I did know what he meant but since he was a client he was spared my famous sarcasm
Think of it this way, "you can take the boy out of Iowa but you can never take the Iowa out of the boy."
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