Obviously, as with all such statements, you have to follow that up
with a clarification - not all of them. But yeah, remember those posts
about Pune where I couldn't stop gushing about how nice and polite
everyone was? Even the vendors on the road were polite and reasonable.
If you bargained, and quoted a ridiculous figure, they'd ignore it,
instead of getting belligerent. Not the case here. People by and large
are very rude, gruff and impatient human beings.
Let's start with the vendors. I'm scared of buying anything from these
vendors. Once I tried to go buy bananas from this guy, except, I only
wanted 3, since I didn't want them to go bad before I got around to
eating them. The vendor became very rude when I was trying to bargain
him down. "You know what, why don't you come back next week." - and
just refused to deal with me. Way to be professional! They also try to
cheat if you're not careful - when you select some fruit and give them
for weighing, they add and subtract from those fruits as they feel
like, meaning they'll take out the good fruit you've selected and add
bad fruit from their piles.
The drivers on the roads are worse in the sense that they're supposed
to be educated people but behave worse than the cattle. They drive
very fast, take fast turns on blind corners, and do not under any
circumstance yield to pedestrians. Not to mention driving on the wrong
side of the road, driving through mud puddles and splashing the muddy
water on pedestrians and finally resorting to physical violence when
confronted about their bad driving.
It's like the people here had civilization thrust on them (rather than
achieving it naturally). So they don't quite understand how to use
modern inventions - like cars! Barbarians!
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