There are cultural differences and then there are cultural differences.
For instance, I don't find it a trouble at all to wait until a clogged doorway empties before walking through it. No matter what country I am in. This waiting for it to empty usually means that more Germans will see that I am waiting and thus push their way through, causing a longer wait on my part.
However, some Germans seem to think that me waiting my turn to walk through a seriously congested doorway is incredibly impolite to the people I am holding up behind me.
Either way I lose. And either way the staff members (who see me having trouble trying to be pushy and obnoxious to get through something as simple as a door) will take the opportunity to make fun of me and ask me why after 6 months I have not yet assimilated. What irritates me the most about said staff members is that they are the ones who ignore me completely until they see me doing something that they can make fun of me for.
Hmmmph. I think I may have to bring in some ex-lax brownies or something... Well, nah, I prolly won't... but it makes me feel better to think that I prolly could :D
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