Says thanks to bus driver

[hesnearly3]

Why do ppl do this? Why thank for a journey that u have paid for? And the driver hopefully drove safely but that's their jobs. So why say thanks? I don't get it

That's a shame for you.

It's courtesy.

I'm about to do just this very shortly!

If you don't get it, I can't make you see it.

Because you're still alive and they stopped when you asked them to

Good manners.

Wow. Do you say thanks to your hairdresser? Or to the person at the supermarket checkout? Or who passes you your McDonald’s? Or who delivers your parcels?

It’s just basic manners.

You always thank drive. What's wrong with you?

It is a polite little courtesy that costs nothing.

It's more logical than saying Bless You when someone sneezes but we still do that because it's polite and it is a social behaviour.

Probably for the same reason I say thank you to everyone who has provided a service I've paid for. Good manners, we all like to be thanked regardless of being paid for our time.

They do this in Ireland. I don't remember people doing it in the UK, but maybe I was the rude one not saying thank you there.

It’s a pleasant and polite acknowledgment, like thanking a taxi driver, shop worker or waiter - they’re doing their job; you’ve benefited from their service. However you don’t HAVE to do it, or get it.

Why say thanks to anyone in a service job?
Cause it's nice to be nice.

I do it all the time. Common courtesy. I also thank servers when they bring the food or drinks in a restaurant, cashiers when they give me change or receipt, and so on. Don't you?

Wow OP.

Does it hurt to say thanks? Have a bit of common courtesy. Manners cost nothing.

Some people are so keen to reduce everything to pure transactions. Nasty attitude.

You always say 'Cheers Drive' as you leave the bus. It's The Rule.

Because I’m not pig-ignorant.

Jesus, do you not thank anyone who’s paid? Your waiter bringing food? The person serving drinks? The person at the till in a shop? Your postie?

Basic courtesy, I wonder if it's cultural to do it by habit though.. in Ireland tourists don't seem to do it but very few Irish people would get off a bus and not say it.

It’s automatic. I never even think about doing it on the odd occasion I use the bus. Why question a nice courtesy that costs nothing?

It's just polite. I say thanks to people who serve me in shops and restaurants too. I'm a solicitor and clients say thanks when I provide my advices (even if they don't like the content haha). I think people who don't are rude and arrogant. HTH.

Because its polite, they have got you to your destination safely.
It doesn't hurt to say thanks, I think driving a bus is a pretty thankless job, they're dealing with the public all day, probably interact with a few difficult passengers plus other road users.
I would say thank you to staff in a shop, bus drivers are no different, both are providing a service and getting paid but it would be considered rude not to thank someone who served you in a shop but considered wierd to thank a bus driver 🙄
It's just good manners

Do you also refuse to thank waitstaff, checkout staff, delivery drivers, etc? It’s just basic manners to thank people regardless of whether or not money changed hands.

Londoners tend not to but that’s only because they normally get off at a different door to the one they enter in so they’re not passing the driver.

It’s a social thing. Do you not say thank you to other people who are doing their job, the shop assistant, the dry cleaner, the waiter?

@TheJackieWeaver

Wow. Do you say thanks to your hairdresser? Or to the person at the supermarket checkout? Or who passes you your McDonald’s? Or who delivers your parcels?

It’s just basic manners.

This. Shop assistants etc are being paid to serve you in the same way a bus driver is paid to drive you.

It's basic everyday manners.