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

Bus drives get treated terribly by some people. I thank
Thtm cos I appreciate them being there especially in the pandemic.

It was only a matter of time before someone brought Covid in to it. Maybe we should all learn sign language until it passes over, become electively mute in all public spaces.

I love the Bristol "Cheers, drive".

They're nice people with manner that say please and thank you.
Cost nothing to be polite. A good habit to have.

though maybe Im taking it a bit far to say thanks to the automatic barrier at New Street car park when leaving Waverley station

Why not? I say thank you to plenty of people who are 'just doing their jobs', because it's polite and I appreciate what they have done.

I thank everyone for what they do for me regardless of if I paid them to do it or not?

Do you not say thank you when you receive your meal in a restaurant?
Or thank you to a taxi driver before you get out?
Or thank you to someone in a shop that’s helped you with information?

@hesnearly3 YABU.

I bet you never thank - or even slightly acknowledge - people who open a door for you, let you pass in a supermarket, (or a shop, or on the street,) or car drivers who flash you to go first in your car, or who stop whilst you cross as a pedestrian etc etc, because you think it's your entitlement.

I bet if you go on a coach trip, and someone does a collection for the coach driver, you put your face against the window and pretend to be asleep. And I bet you raise your hand, click your fingers, and yell 'WAITRESS!' in a restaurant, and talk to her like she's your servant. And I bet you let hotel staff take all your shit to your room, don't thank them, and don't even make eye contact, because (in your eyes) they're beneath you.

Urgh, it's so depressing to think there are people like you walking around in public.

Shame you didn't put a poll. Afraid it would be massively weighed against you I suppose? (It would have been.)

As most people have said, what kind of person do you have to be to NOT thank someone in the service industry? (An entitled, obnoxious, ignorant one that's what!)

And colour me shocked. The OP posted the thread at 10am, and has not been back to it. Yes I know it's only three quarters of an hour, but who the hell posts a thread and then instantly fucks off???

And I did notice when on school trips (as a parent helper) that my DS always thanked the driver when he got off, in startling contrast to the other children who were clearly less used to bus travel and didn't know they should. The other children weren't being rude really, they just didn't know; they did thank the museum staff most politely which was lovely to see.

You're a southerner, aren't you . . . ?

Up here in t' North we always say "thank you." It's just courteous.

Why do you object? It's not like anyone is asking you to tip them a fiver.

@littlepattilou

Go take a lie down

its nice to be nice...politeness and good manners cost nothing and make everyone feel just that bit better about their day.

Always thank the bus driver, plus the person who holds doors open for me and vice versa.
Always thank a person in a car who waits for you to come through if there isn’t enough room for two cars, a little wave is polite.
Manners cost nothing and rudeness is not a nice trait.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

You're a southerner, aren't you . . . ?

Up here in t' North we always say "thank you." It's just courteous.

Why do you object? It's not like anyone is asking you to tip them a fiver.

You should probably read the full thread before having a pop at Southerners.

We're quite polite to drivers down here too.

Basic manners and courtesy and it’s a nice thing to say and hear! I would always thank the hairdresser, train ticket man, supermarket till person etc. It’s just a nice and polite thing to do.

Over 110 replies in under 45 minutes. An excellent goading effort.

im old and have always said thanks to a bus driver.
its just polite.

It's a long time since I went on a 'bus but I always thanked them. It seems like common courtesy to me.

@FourWordsImMuNiTy

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?

Londoner here. I shout thanks when I exit the middle doors, and plenty of other passengers do too.

It's a basic politeness and also lets them know that you are in the process of moving off the bus.
You won't want to read this OP, but I give them a little wave too, when I have disembarked, to say "Job Done!"

It’s called courtesy, you know, like thanking people when they hold the door open for you, like thanking taxi drivers after you have finished your ride, like thanking serving staff as they deliver food to your table, like thanking the till worker at supermarkets when you have finished, like thanking the butcher, the greengrocer or any other shopkeeper as you leave

Thank god we are not all as rude as you

@Srslydontgiveacrap 🤣🤣

People that don’t say thank you to bus drivers are very rude. If you don’t get why a thank you is needed, maybe you lack manors.

I'm in London so I don't say thank you on the big busses but on the little hopper busses I always say thank you.

Weird not to.

Having just explained why I say thank you on this woeful thread I am now sat here totally depressed as to what sort of world we live in when someone asks this question....stop the bus I wanna get off thank you...ffs

@SchadenfreudePersonified Oh stop it with your tired clichés - there are rude gits (and kind, polite people!) everywhere, north and south. Can't abide this idea that somehow "the north" is all friendliness while London and Southern areas aren't. I've lived in both (and in Scotland) and there is a mix of people everywhere.

Also why do you feel you have to describe northern England as "t' North"?

@Griselda1

In Northern Ireland it's common for collections to be made for bus drivers who do day excursions etc. I once took a group of young people on a trip to New York and they tipped an excursion driver in this way.He cried when they gave him the $50 and explained that he couldn't afford a hotel for the over night stay so was travelling quite a distance out to stay with a sister. Seeing this huge black man reduced to tears over a small act of kindness was amazing for them as they were unemployed young people there for work experience.

That's lovely!

I'm in the North East and we customarily do this too - it's just shows a bit of appreciation (especially if it's a bus full of over-excited noisy youngsters )

I'm also very cheered to see that there are many Londoners who thank the driver. When I was at university (as both student and teacher) all of the students who sneered at the "thank yous", and actually complained on some occasions, were southerners who "couldn't see the point".

All of them.

Without exception.

It coloured my picture of life "dahn Sarf"