China "land of courtesy", WTF! Someone was smoking the wacky tobaccy when they came up with that one!

Courtesy only extends so far. If I board a town bus with Esther the reason I get offered a seat is because most people are not travelling too far anyway, so their niceness doesn't cost them much. However, if the wife takes the girl on the village bound bus which takes an hour to get there nobody will offer a seat and poor Esther will have to stand and droop for an hour.

{and yes, 'the wife/the old girl' and 'the girl/the daughter' are signs of affection in England. Not a sexist thing as the wife will often refer to 'the old man' NOT THE WHITE OLD MAN, Fiffi hahaha!}