INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland?

more like "flegmatyczni"...?
;)

'Gentlemanly' is the word you're looking for.

This whole queue jumping thing drives me to distraction, I completely lost it the other week in McDonalds when this stupid bint pushed a buggy over my foot walked passed six people queueing and went to order. I exploded used some very strong language and told her to get to the back of the queue. Everyone went deathly quite and stared me or the floor.

It is a f8cking liberty and i shall not abide it.

Bravo.

ok, calm down and finish up your burger...

Tickled me, this quote. Reminded me of my experience. Stood in a supermarket queue about ten minutes, and when I finally got to the checkout, the cashier decided to have a break and told me to use another checkout ( ever seen a giant can of dog food bouncing along a conveyor belt ? ). And I mean bouncing ! lol.

I wish I had your problem, really.

:)

Poles are rude sometimes , and often sounds rude - I think the reason for that is the communism rule !
Before the War, Poles didn't differ from European median !

What, you mean they didn't differ from being anti-Jewish, nationalist and a bit backwards?

Pregnant women have a right to cue jump in Poland, not saying that was the case here but i agree with that one.

Or does he mean that once Poland had got rid of its ethnic minorities (Jews, Ukrainians, Belarussians, etc) only the rude people were left?

Perhaps at the doctors, but not at Maccy D's.

Do they bollocks....

was she pregnant then?


They'll only be at the gynecologist's Doctor wise and that's full of other pregnant women anyway. From what i hear its an unwritten rule in Poland, pregnant women get to cue jump.

Well, if there are any decent men and women in that cue, then this would probably be the case just about anywhere in the world.

:)

True. Any gentleman would let a preggers woman go ahead. I do this all the time.

Sounds like the pregnant lady may have been doing a litlle "cue jumping" herself then to get into the state she's in - if that's what they call it these days.

(It's queue : ))

PKO Bank has a sign saying so. also women with babies.

So the women that you lost it with in front of a crowd at McDonalds, was she pregnant or not? We know already that she had a young child with her.

No not pregnant she had a fat little f8cker five year old and a baby in the buggy.

She walked past two queues of six people. Just plain arrogant and rude. Not acceptable.

if she asked the person at the front of the queue if she could go first.... then that's the way it's done here. one does not have to consult the rest of the queue.

She asked no one, just steamed right passed all of us. Running my foot over in the process.
I hate rude ignorant people. Politeness, curtesy and an awareness of others is essential for a functioning society.

true indeed. that's why i let women with children go first.

yeah off a burning vessel. Not a queue in a shop or McD's. What about the other children and parents standing in the queue??

LOL.

Are you Polish? Did you explode in Polish or English?

IME criticising people's behavior in public has always been okay in Poland, sort of a national pasttime, but yelling and losing you're temper makes you look like a psycho and that's how you'll be treated.

The thing to do is to say something critical with some semblance of style (or trying for same) or at least in a calm voice.

"Hallo, pani zachowuje się jak bydło." or even the old favorite "Pani pcha jak bydło, czy Pani jest normalna? " would be more effective than screaming.

and a bit of a sissy, if it had been some big Polish dude i bet he wouldn't have been so quick to mouth off.

I'm English. I exploded in polish. And yup you are right everyone stared at me like i was a loony. I do try and stay as calm as possible generally but blatant ignorance makes me see red. Men are a lot easier to deal with in such situations because worst comes to comes to worst you can give them a slap. But since hitting women is not on my agenda, verbal aggression has to sufice. Had I asked her politely in the first place, she would have ignored me this I know from bitter experience. I have tried before the, " i'm sorry do you mind" ( in Polish) and received a blank look.

Don't get me wrong I'm not running around Poland shouting at people BUT I will not tolerate fools.

WOW ! your polish must be good. lol

: ) very good!