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

@RizzleRazzle

Because I have manners.

Do you not say thank you to taxi drivers when they drop you off, supermarket workers when they hand you your shopping, waiting staff when they bring you your food, hairdressers when they cut your hair, health care professionals when they treat you, delivery drivers when they hand you your parcel, takeaway drivers when they bring you food etc etc.

All of those people are 'just doing their job' that you've paid for but you'd have to be a special type of arsehole not to thank them.

Whoops - had not read yours before I posted mine. I totally agree!

@BestestBrownies

This is one of the big contributing reasons why London has its ‘unfriendly’ reputation and why people who move there feel so lonely.

It’s a small courtesy that makes a massive difference (to both giver and receiver imho).

Does depend on the bus design though. If exiting from the back doors I’m not shouting down the length of the bus. I would only do it if exiting from the front where the driver is.

Absolute bullshit! Everyone I know from London will always thank the driver, tourists not so much.

Haha. Really? My toddler has more manners than you. Do you live alone?

Because it costs nothing and makes their lives a bit more pleasant from what I imagine is quite a shit and stressful job. I wouldn’t like to be a bus driver having to deal with tight timetables, traffic, fuckwit drivers on the road and arsehole bus passengers. So, I say good morning/afternoon on entry and thank you on disembarking if I catch a bus.

@WorraLiberty
I have also gone to thank the tram when I have got off

And take no offence whatsoever at t'north ( from a northerner )

I always say thank you to bus drivers! Don't understand why you wouldn't, they were briefly in charge of making sure you didn't die. Same as I say thank you to taxi drivers (and everyone, really. Y'know. Cos polite)

I’m a Southerner. It really offends me when ppl say “thanks” in general, it’s just so completely unnecessary. But particularly when you’ve already paid for a menial service.

I also don’t like poor people, or people who smell. Or people in need. Or children. In fact, children are the worst. And don’t get me started on parents.

I always say Thankyou much like when I pay for anything in a shop 🤷‍♀️ - manners cost nothing

@SchadenfreudePersonified

@SchadenfreudePersonified Plenty of people in the north moan about being ignored, left behind, not taken seriously, presented badly in the media etc, yet many northerners in general, especially on MN, describe as "I'm from ooop north!" etc etc. Why? Do they want to perpetuate the "Andy Capp" imagery that in previous breaths they are moaning about?

However, I stand by my point that people are no ruder or more polite in any area of the UK vs another. You have polite people and ignorant sods everywhere.

My Dh is a train driver and quite often gets passengers walk up to the front engine to say thank you.

He really appreciates it, and when it’s parents with kids it’s even nicer knowing that good manners still are a thing to be taught to our children.

DS & I very rarely get the bus now and although he has SLD and is totally non verbal, we always thank the driver via signing.

I say thanks to the cash machine of course I'm going to say thanks to the bus driver checkout person post man everyone because its good manners and I like to be polite and that maybe the one thing that person has to hear to know they are doing a fantastic job

@AndromedaGal

I’m a Southerner. It really offends me when ppl say “thanks” in general, it’s just so completely unnecessary. But particularly when you’ve already paid for a menial service.

I also don’t like poor people, or people who smell. Or people in need. Or children. In fact, children are the worst. And don’t get me started on parents.

You had me going for a few seconds!

@littlepattilou Probably sitting there with a coffee, reading all the responses, laughing, and polishing her nails with pride, at her 'excellent work.'

Don't you mean polishing her cloven hooves? 😉

[quote Nocar]@tigerstripe20.
I'm not being goady an my parents generally brought us up to be respectful, so would say thanks to shop staff etc, but was surprised when I had to get a bus a few years ago and everyone was thanking the driver. I can't remember seeing people do that as a kid.
Late 40's and I was brought up in north west.[/quote]
I'm 41 and from the NW and regularly travelled on buses as a child.
Everyone always thanked the driver.

Because it's polite! I always say please and thank you on the bus, at the shop etc! My children are also complimented on their good manners!

@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 I want the driver to remember to stop at the really inconvenient stop on the hill near to work at 6.45am in the pissing rain rather than sailing past and making me walk another mile when I need to be in work.

It's also nice when I leave work ten minutes late and the same drivers on a day shift see me coming out of work and wait at the stop for me to cross the road so I don't have to wait another half hour when I'm knackered.

The one who got used to me being so tired on the way home that I was half asleep by the time he reached my stop, he waited at my home stop with a bus full of people and switched the lights on and off repeatedly until I woke up so I didn't miss my stop was doing far more than his paid for job.

I always appreciate the ones that see me coming up the road from home if I'm running a little late and they're running a little early and they wait at the stop for me to get there. And the ones who wait until I've sat down before pulling away.

Maybe they'd have done these things for anybody - but if saying thank you helped that along, I'm fine with making such a tiny, inconsequential effort to be pleasant to them instead of the thousands who ignore them or are arseholes.

(By the way, they're London buses, not the ones for DP's home village who do exactly the same so nobody gets stranded at night once the last bus departs)

Because it’s just polite. Why wouldn’t you?

Surely you say thank you to shop assistants, taxi drivers etc. too?

[quote Rosehip10]@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"?[/quote]
It's all part of the conceit, often perpetuated by some people who live in London, that the big city is a dangerous sophisticated place, where everyone is far too busy and important for niceties, and only the toughest survive.
By contrast the North is full of small town guileless folk, with nothing better to do that chat to each other all day.
All nonsense, but a recurring theme.

@OddBoots

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.

The reasoning behind that is when you sneeze it separates the soul from the body and saying 'Bless you' stops the devil from stealing your soul.

Saying thank you is just polite, unless the bus driver has little horns and a forked tail and has a strange stick in his hand.

[quote ThePluckOfTheCoward]**@littlepattilou* Probably sitting there with a coffee, reading all the responses, laughing, and polishing her nails with pride, at her 'excellent work.'*

Don't you mean polishing her cloven hooves? 😉[/quote]

The OP sounds like the kind of person that barges people out of the way when they hold a door open for them.

they're running a little early and they wait at the stop for me to get there.

@NeverDropYourMoonCup If the bus is early, they can’t leave until the scheduled time. So if they bus is 14.45, they can’t leave until 14.45 regardless of what time they pull in at.

I got the bus to school from the age of 5...I’ve been thanking the driver since I was about 8. It’s common courtesy innit!

well... I say thank you every time when I'm on the bus what's wrong with that ?,,,,,,,,,as opposed to the abuse that bus drivers receive every day !
its a common courtesy .........and I'm sure they appreciate feeling valued
in a world that is so ignorant at times !
there is no excuse to treat people badly....when they are performing a much needed service ! you have my permission to say THANK YOU !

It’s just polite. I always thank the cashier at the supermarket at the end of the transaction even though they’re being paid to cash up my items. It’s basic manners.