If you go walking in the forest and suddenly meet in a clearing a man climb a mountain and someone comes towards you, go in the evening with her dog in a park and suddenly see another person, would you say hello?
What appears to be the most normal thing in the world, it can not be expected in Germany long ago: An elderly couple approaches forth from the horizon, she with a heavy fur around the neck, the rest good Loden, suddenly they intensify their striking conversation, play the depth - not to have to salute.
Alone in the Forest: joggers, couples, men of all ages, women in pairs or alone; one avoids eye contact, looks down, does absentminded or preoccupied. Anything but hello!
It is probably one in all the world to place a matter of course - you want to finally show with the greeting that you can not harm feeding her and respects the opposite.
My father recently came from a shopping completely depressed home: No one had zurückgegrüßt him, yes, one had looked indignant-wonder; what does he want anyway?
How else is there but the Switzerland. On a highway in a small school is out. Every few meters echoes me a cheerful "Gruezi!" Counter. I'm almost upset. Or then the climb up a mountain: Every ten minutes, come down Descending people, every time comes a "Gruezi wanted" and I think bravely about it. Once comes from above nothing. Since my Swiss companion says: "Yes we know the same, these are newcomers who do not belong here."
Verstoffelt and verdruckst, and just simply rude and impolite, so the Germans are unfortunately very often.
But an exception's: The dog owner. As you come to a most welcome addition to extensive dog chat not around plus suffering and life stories from both dog and owner. Thanks for the normality!
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Well spotted. I greet you!
Oh, you just live in the wrong area and Germany is full of different tribal rites. Come over to Kiel, here it is just the way you want it. I say this as in 24 years of living in Kiel Potsdam, just the kind of liability the people underestimated here.
I also wonder what area in D describes the Friederike. On thüringer trails is not true. And while cycling on the main bike path in Haßfurter room was my Grüßerei and open-mindedness of the residents almost uncanny - I was afraid to be confused with someone and immediately invited instead to coffee ...
But it's true - there are also areas with other mentality.
Beautiful contribution to an almost trivial matter. Negligible and totally unnecessary seemed to me at least one regards or sincerely Back in the first three decades of my life (apart from my childhood). Now, in the middle of the forties, as the father of two children and owner of a house, I discover that regards, at least when walking down the street or across the country and the meaning behind it again. Not everyone greets back, but I do not care. Meanwhile, I think this is an important, dexterous to others, signal to identify myself as part of a civil society that has a minimum interest in maintaining this structure. Have I ever thought about, but: The Greeting is for me now again become important.
By and large, properly observed.
Thank God there is one exception: the cemetery!
Obviously, the common fate moves to greet.