Is this rude?

[Chickenpoonumber2]

I'm a new yorker so you don't want to know what we say or not say at all.

I worked with a lady from New York. She said whatever she was thinking.

 

[Bigdumogre]

I worked with a lady from New York. She said whatever she was thinking.

Thats how it is here. I'm a very polite person and learned a lot of my manners when i was stationed in Fort Knox Kentucky. But when i am too polite in the city i just get weird stares so the NY attitude has to be out all the time

 

[BoundlessLove]

Just wanted to add that we also wave to other drivers when we’re driving. It’s very common here.

 

[Chickenpoonumber2]

Just wanted to add that we also wave to other drivers when we’re driving. It’s very common here.

I find that's very common in small towns.

 

[FrostRanger]

As someone who was born in Florida, we certainly said please and thank you (although not really yes please and no thank you) but nobody I knew said sir or ma'am. Florida is so far south it's not really part of the south IME

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Just wanted to add that we also wave to other drivers when we’re driving. It’s very common here.

So true! If i don’t get a wave back I think “you ain’t from around here, is you?”

 

[OnlySympathy]

And to think that I thought I was polite with my thank you’s… darn yankee brain

 

[redinator]

Sir's and ma'am's until your lips are numb. God forbid you said it with a hint of sarcasm, any adult within reach would adjust your tone with a grateful nod from your parents. We did quite often refer to long time family friends as Aunt/Uncle though. Our friends' parents could be referred to on a first name bases, but it was always Miss/Mrs/Mr (First Name) and only if they said so. It doesn't seem as common now though.

 

[NotabitaiI]

I'm a new yorker so you don't want to know what we say or not say at all.

This is why I love New Yorkers
I either keep my yap shut or I speak my mind so I'm not generally received well in the south where everyone puts on a face and spoon feeds you sugar coated jabs.

 

[NotabitaiI]

Just wanted to add that we also wave to other drivers when we’re driving. It’s very common here.

Facts. I can't drive out of my small town without waving goodbye to all the neighbors, pedestrians, tractor drivers, and horse riders. Drivers get the two fingers up from the wheel half wave.