Learn manners (From Oxford Mail)

Learn manners

10:00am Wednesday 28th July 2010 in

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OXFORD during the summer is full of foreign language students, attending various schools.

I say to the teachers of these students, the first word they should be taught is ‘manners’ – especially when waiting and getting on buses.

They don’t queue like the British do, automatically, and when they get on the bus they don’t give up their seats to senior citizens who might be standing.

They fill the pavements and people must walk into the road to get past.

Also, as there are so many in the city centre, especially Bonn Square and Cornmarket Street, in the evenings, and there are no public conveniences around because they are closed, I would like to ask, where do they go?

Many are young and not able to go into bars, so the only places left are the takeaways. Surely they don’t all queue up in McDonalds, next to people getting their quarter-pounders?

No wonder Oxford has a bad name among tourists who visit, when the powers that be cannot provide people what they need.

COLIN SMITH, George Moore Close, Donnington, Oxford