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Being Polite / Showing the Better Side

Ensuring the guests have cups with a decent lid in this Chongqing suburb, above, and ensuring the guest (or female customer) is given two cups in a Kampala market place below. Why two cups? To make it easier to cool the liquid and less likely to scald lips.

What are the 'costs' of the provider of the 'polite' or this-is-our-best-side service? How important is it that the receiver recognizes the real costs?

Writing from Chongqing, somewhere near | May 30, 2007 | Permalink