I grew up in a city well known for jokes about stealing car wheels etc. I always felt as though I didn’t fit in and left as soon as I could. I couldn’t deal with the chip on shoulder attitude of a lot of residents - we’d be such a great city again if it wasn’t for or near neighbour city sucking everything up.
My family still live there so I come back and visit regularly. When I point out that:
- Every supermarket I’ve been in won’t take the security tag off at the self service until you’ve actually paid is something I’ve only see here - most other places will do it after they’ve approved it or as you are scanning
- A lot of the local petroleum stations and convenience stores won’t take contactless due to fraud
- Virtually every petrol station limits fuelling to 50 litres - you have to pay then go back and filll the rest of the tank!
There are many other small things which when added together don’t make for a good environment.
I point this out and I get told everywhere is like this these days.
No it isn’t !
It’s only to be expected a
No it isn’t!
But god forbid I suggest there is actually a problem and I get told not to slag off my home town.
I guess the reason I’m angry is we came up in a new car this weekend which promptly got keyed when parked up.
Family are obviously sympathetic but in general there is a view that what do you expect driving a car like that here and if you can afford said car you can afford to fix it.
Hat sort of attitude is prevalent and I’ve hated it since I was old enough to realise it existed!
I just want to shake the family and make them realise it’s not like that everywhere!