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

Depends on the bus. you always thank driver when you go out the door by driver. Exit door further back you don't bellow down the bus.

When I get off the tram, as I walk past the cab, I always raise my hand and smile in thanks.

Doesn't everyone want to feel just a little appreciated for what they do? Whether they are paid for their work or not??

If I get off at the door by the driver I say thank you, I'd say the same to a cabbie too - it's just good manners! Do you not say thank you to a cashier or have a short chat (no not a queue-delaying chinwag) but a quick exchange? It's called manners, being polite and being nice- and it just helps us all feel better.

Starting a thread and then not returning. Why do ppl do this? I don't get it.

Because being polite and grateful for things people do for you makes the world a better place.

I thought everyone did it, didn’t realise anyone would need to have this explained, I also thank a taxi driver, delivery person, someone stopping for me at a zebra crossing, the list goes on.

Because it's basic good manners...

@SpacePug My brother is a bus driver in Hull. Lots of little old ladies buy bags of sweets or bars of chocolate to give the bus driver on their journey home from shopping!! He also gets given tins of biscuits and bottles of booze over Christmas!!

Personally, I would never get off a bus without saying thank you to the driver.

@Skinnytailedsquirrel

In London it's become a virtue signal. People exit from the middle of the bus and say it so that the passengers hear. The bus driver sitting behind their plastic shield certainly doesn't. Many of the drivers are maniac drivers anyway and that just emphasises the virtue signalling bit of this.

It's a sad indictment of society when saying thank you is derided as virtue-signalling.

That's so nice @rc22! Nice to show appreciation.

It's just second nature to me to thank the driver of a bus, taxi or whatever. Why wouldn't you??

I don’t know if @hesnearly3 is going to come back to this thread, but if you do, OP, what I’d tell you is this:

Good manners, the little pleasantries like please and thank you, being nice to people when you don’t have to - the social niceties - they cost nothing, and they all help make life more pleasant. And whilst not saying thank you to a bus driver, for example, isn’t the same as being actively rude or unpleasant, it is a bit of grit in the machinery of social interaction.

If you have too many bits of grit in society, and not enough of the lubricant of social niceties, that isn’t good for society as a whole or for us as individuals - that is what I believe.

I also think that being nice to other people is good for us - I think it makes us feel better about ourselves. If you have a day that is full of little moments of positivity - like saying thank you to the bus driver or the waiter - surely that makes you feel better too - not just the waiter or bus driver.

Because I was brought up properly, it’s as simple as that. Please, thank you, hold doors open for other people, let people exit from a room before you go in, never drop litter, treat people as you would like to be treated.
It’s usual to thank bus drivers in Liverpool, most people do it. Likewise retail staff.

I always say thank you to a bus driver.
I also wave to boats.

I thought these were the rules?

Its drummed into us by our parents from a very young age. In Bristol we even have the t shirt.

It’s the norm to say thank you here.Basically everyone does. It especially makes me smile hearing all the high school kids, one after the other, girls and boys alike, all nicely call out ‘thank you!’ even when exiting from the back door. Considering most teenage boys I encounter seem to just grunt, it’s lovely hearing such good manners.

Do you say thank you to the cashier in Sainsburys who gives you your receipt?
Because thats her job?

Ofcourse you do, because its ‘having good manners’

it's polite?

Hi OP. It's usually referred to as having good manners.

Because I'm not an a**hole

Do you think after 17 pages the OP will return and realise manners exist?

A few years ago I was going on a local train journey in Switzerland and sitting in the train at the terminus waiting for it to start. The driver got in and walked through the carriages shaking the hands of all the people he knew (most of them) and having a few words with them. Even I got good day.

@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

Because it’s polite and you sound like an entitled arsehole if you don’t

So then we shouldn't thank waiters? Or hairdressers? Or people in the shop passing us our change?

I despair

First class "light the blue touchpaper". Well done, OP.

@MrsMoastyToasty I've got at on a mug.