worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.0306020821.7ae46ac4@posting.google.com>...
> >  
> > You have to admit,they are polite.
> > 
> I wonder if it counts as politeness when, for the most part, it's not
> sincere. To me good service would be asking for a refill on my water
> and getting it without much question; I will always remember doing
> this in a small coffee shop in Umeda (one of those trendy places with
> pretty cakes and half-filled glasses) and the waitress looked at me as
> though I had asked her to calculate the distance to the sun in inches.
> She eventually went to her manager, who tilted his head and eventually
> said no.
> 

Remember that you can't ask them to do things that aren't in the script.

Mukade