andrel wrote:

>> Interesting. IME, "travel" involves sitting in a moving vehicle for 
>> hours feeling bored and uncomfortable. And let's put it this way: I 
>> can't interact with people who speak my own language. How am I 
>> supposed to get anywhere with people who don't even know what I'm saying?
>>
> One of the great things of being abroad is that they don't know you have 
> problems interacting. They'll put it down to you being a foreigner and 
> will be much more responsive than the people around you who know how a 
> ordinary member of society should behave.

You know what? It might just be the whole "the grass is greener" trip, 
but it certainly seems that the people in Switzerland were a lot more 
friendly than the people over here. Maybe they just take customer 
service more seriously, IDK...

>> (I was about to add "and probably don't like me", but then I 
>> remembered that that's normal anyway...)
> 
> You know what? I guess quite a lot of people here might like you when 
> you would meet them IRL. Unlikely of course as you don't travel and most 
> of us only go to interesting places when given a choice.

The thing about the Internet... the people you meet are almost 
guaranteed to live really far away. Ah well!

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