r/Norway • u/[deleted] • 6d ago
Working in Norway Etiquette? Common courtesy?
This may offend people and get down voted. It is what it is. Do Norwegians not learn common courtesy or street etiquette when they are kids? For real. So sick of this. Always stopping and standing in the middle of an aisle or sidewalk to talk, fix a bag, etc. Don't care about the people behind you. When they're walking down a sidewalk, they just walk in the middle, on the wrong side, walk 2 or 3 abreast, not caring about people walking towards you. Don't let other people off public transport before you push your way on. The last straw was tonight when I was at Meny, and a lady didn't even let me finish my order before she was pushing her way into my self checkout. I go to grab my receipt with my barcode to get out, she looks at me and goes "Ja". You guys don't give a shit about anyone but yourself, for real. This needs to be said
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u/BattledroidE 6d ago
The one thing I notice is that we never adopted the "keep right" system that is widely used. Sidewalks, shopping malls, escalators, they're all designed with that in mind. Yet, you have to zigzag around people coming in both directions all over the place. There was a little bit of order during covid, but as soon as the signs were taken down, it collapsed again.