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[Snad]

arghhh I knew this would happen soon.
Been here since wed last week and I knew it wuld be too good to be true.

I was standing at Orphinedes waitng behind some men wanting to weight their fruit and veg, when along comes a women and plonks her fruitbag on the till infront of them, they did not batter an eyelid and the lady carried on weighing there fruit. When she has finished, i thought ok, this lady that has just gone in front of me has only one thing and i have 5, so i will allow her to go infront.

Then someone queued the other side of the ladt in front of me, and I thought oh ok I am queing the wrong side, so I walked behind the lady on the other side and waited.

THEN.......A long comes lady number 3 and plonks her stuff right in front of me at the scales...... er hello... excuse me I said, I am next....
she says to me..yeah yeah whatever go on then, you are standing there doing nothing so you know....

er no, I am in the queue waiting for the lady in front to finish. that is what a queue is for.

yes terrible isnt it she replied, how disgusting that we just push in front of you, just disgusting.

well needless to say at this point i realised that she was acting like a complete child (although she was 50 odd id say)
and had to have the last word, and reply to everything by saying, yes disgusting isnt it, that I just got my things weighed and moved on....

ohhh I was soooo annoyed!!!!

is it just me, is it not rude!!!!!

But normally this sort of rudness would frustrate me for the rest of the day, however I remembered advice given on here.

You can never change the greeks, so just go with them!!!!
xx

I don't think we can tar everyone with the same brush. There are many Cypriots that are polite and helful and there are those who are down right rude.
It does take some getting used to and the ones that push in at the fruit and veg line, will probably be stodd behind you at the check-out. So did pushing in help them?
I rest my case.

[jazzy1]

in the cypriots defence, although I was pissed off about this incident, I have also found many many people to be more than helpful going more than out of there way.

xx

[Marz]

Theres always a rude person somewhere, if they are doig something to you, just do something back to them an dsee how quickly their attitude will change, especially if your 6'2 and 100 kilo like me

[orokliniservices]

I had the same problem in Protaras over the weekend. Waiting in line at a fast food spot on a busy and hot saturday i was in line for over 15 minutes and then when it was my turn to order this pushy cypriot woman barges in right in front of me. I don't stand for that and got into a bit of an arguement with her right in the store front. Telling her she just can jump the line, she has to wait her turn just as I did. When she tried to ignore me, I politely tapped her on the shoulder and told her she would have to get behind me, that I was next.

I mean god.. all i wanted was a milkshake on a hot day.. but have to put up with rubbish like this on a daily basis.. it's frustrating.

[Hazza]

Had that a little while ago in Orphanides, somebody barged in front of me at the till, I complained, the cashier looks at me and says "embirasi" and carries on ringing up this womans shopping. Rather than kick up too much of a fuss, I guess it was also very childish of me, I waited with a big grin on my face. I let the cashier put my shopping through the till, a big trolly full of food, tins, frozen stuff. I let her put it all through before telling her

"I changed my mind, I don't want it"
Cashier - "I've put it all through now"
Me - "Embirasi"

Went to Chris Cash and Carry instead. Never been back to Orphanides since.

[rotate]

At least if someone gets stabbed in the middle of the street (not too common in Cyprus, but an everyday thing in England) people WILL care. Unless they are british tourists.

Thats a fair warning to British tourists not to visit Cyprus, get stabbed in the street and no one will care!
Should make good headlines in the UK press and do wonders for the Cypriot tourist industry

[alexISS]

At least if someone gets stabbed in the middle of the street (not too common in Cyprus, but an everyday thing in England) people WILL care. Unless they are british tourists.

Thats a fair warning to British tourists not to visit Cyprus, get stabbed in the street and no one will care!
Should make good headlines in the UK press and do wonders for the Cypriot tourist industry

At least if someone (singular) gets stabbed in the middle of the street people (plural) WILL care. Unless they (plural) are british tourists.

I think it's quite clear

It's good you approach the matter in a humourous way. In the same spirit, I should add that of all the tourists, the British are spending the least money and create the most noise and trouble (that's the case in Greece anyway), so they wouldn't be really missed over here, I don't know what the Cypriots think...

[rotate]

At least if someone gets stabbed in the middle of the street (not too common in Cyprus, but an everyday thing in England) people WILL care. Unless they are british tourists.

Thats a fair warning to British tourists not to visit Cyprus, get stabbed in the street and no one will care!
Should make good headlines in the UK press and do wonders for the Cypriot tourist industry

At least if someone (singular) gets stabbed in the middle of the street people (plural) WILL care. Unless they (plural) are british tourists.

I think it's quite clear

It's good you approach the matter in a humourous way. In the same spirit, I should add that of all the tourists, the British are spending the least money and create the most noise and trouble (that's the case in Greece anyway), so they wouldn't be really missed over here, I don't know what the Cypriots think...

Yes! Thank you it is very clear.

Please do not allow my humorous approach to fool you, I detect little humour in your sweeping generalisation of British tourists. I do however have some sympathy with the problems that Greece has with its tourism industry and the British in particular, Greece being a victim of its own success in deliberately attracting cheap mass tourism after failing to retain the high end of the market.

Regardless of what you may believe or have been led to believe violent crime in the RoC that is not British generated does exist as I, my Cypriot wife and Cypriot neighbours discovered to our cost.
As for people caring in Cyprus, don't fool yourself, EVERYONE including paid legal representatives and the Cypriot authorities WILL back away when challenged by criminality controlled by a person of 'influence' and their somewhat occasionally violent eastern European 'friends'. All very understandable really, after all no one in their right mind wants their lives threatened, their property vandalised or their promotion/pension prospects stymied for the sake of the victims be they Cypriot (one is a Greek Greek) or otherwise.

Back to the tourists, British or any other Johnny foreigners, I'm with you on that one, it would be far better if they all stayed away and left us in peace. After all and possibly like yourself 'I'm all right Jack' as I don't rely on the tourist beer money to earn a living, there's plenty of imported labour working in Cyprus that could be sent packing and their vacant jobs filled by the 'few' Cypriots who previously worked in the tourist related industry

[anastasiaC]

maybe its just me as Im so easy going but I never let things like that get to me.....if someone is rude enough to barge in then let them be - i dont waste my energy arguing with people like that....

[alexISS]

Yes! Thank you it is very clear.

Please do not allow my humorous approach to fool you, I detect little humour in your sweeping generalisation of British tourists.

You should know about generalizing. See below

I do however have some sympathy with the problems that Greece has with its tourism industry and the British in particular

No need for sympathy. Greece is the only country in the region with increased number of tourists arriving this season compared to last year.

Greece being a victim of its own success in deliberately attracting cheap mass tourism after failing to retain the high end of the market.

I don't know if there is something special in Greece that attracts cheap mass tourim from Britain and not from the rest of the world, but I do not consider a coincidence that the very same complaint is valid in Italy and Turkey too.

Regardless of what you may believe or have been led to believe violent crime in the RoC that is not British generated does exist as I, my Cypriot wife and Cypriot neighbours discovered to our cost.

Regardless of what you may believe that I may believe, I do not consider Cyprus to be crime-free, I never said that. I said that it's in a much better condition than the UK.

As for people caring in Cyprus, don't fool yourself, EVERYONE including paid legal representatives and the Cypriot authorities WILL back away when challenged by criminality controlled by a person of 'influence' and their somewhat occasionally violent eastern European 'friends'.

THAT's generalizing. In the same spirit, every police officer in Britain is too busy shooting innocent tourists that look like Arabs to help those that are being mugged.

Back to the tourists, British or any other Johnny foreigners

Just the British that live in a trailer and pollute the surroundings without spending a nickle

I'm with you on that one, it would be far better if they all stayed away and left us in peace. After all and possibly like yourself 'I'm all right Jack' as I don't rely on the tourist beer money to earn a living, there's plenty of imported labour working in Cyprus that could be sent packing and their vacant jobs filled by the 'few' Cypriots who previously worked in the tourist related industry

That doesn't make sense. The abovementioned tourists contribute NOTHING to the local economy (beer money excluded:wink: but that's not holiday big time spending exactly), that's why people should be better off without them. No lost jobs or lost money in the tourist industry.

Anyway, my initial post came as a reply to the "cypriot mentality" GENERALIZATION that was mentioned by a compatriot of yours