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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • People here, at least for the last 50+ years, used to have a quite comfortable, safe lifestyle, with various state institutions taking care of shit. If anything (and may it only be a small thing) is taken away from them, or goes wrong, or cannot be sustained anymore, they start to complain that everything is breaking down.

    In short: Entitlement and a tendency to nag and take everything for granted, plus inflexibility and unwillingness to change/think out of the box.

    Personal humble opinion of a German.










  • German here. According to my experience, on some places you’re the weird one not greeting.

    Doctor’s waitimg room: greet and goodbye expected.

    Bus: Usually you enter in front and leave in the back, so only greet the driver, usually.

    Nature/dog walk: Indifferent. Usually we greet everyone we meet, due to the shared nature experience probably. And usually nobody greets back. If you make room for cyclists, nobody says thanks or even breaks a bit to give you more time to get out of their way. Last weekend, however, everybody we met greeted first, and every cyclist breaked and said thanks, which was a remarkably strange but positive experience.

    Office/company grounds: I tend to greet everyone. Except for a few who regularly don’t greet back. Usually at least saying “hi” once a day is expected.

    What miffes me most is that most people here are reluctant to thank for services provided (cashier, doc’s assistant, cleaners, security…). As if these hardest working people somehow were invisible, or machines.