- Belt & Pounds
- Hello..Hello I looked back, a co-traveller is yelling at me in his language,
which I did not understand. He then pointed to the tray on the security conveyor belt. By mistake I put my belt in his tray. He was shouting continuously even though I shifted my belt to another tray. In Doha airport one is required to remove the belt, wristwatch, shoes etc..which I forgot to do at the first instance.
- Almost same period in England, I had different experience. Pounds are preferred to Dollars or Euros in small shops of England even before Brexit. Since we had only dollars, we decided to exchange some dollars at the exchange counter of hotel. Exchange counter was lighted and I saw only one person standing there.
I walked straight to the counter and coolly stood behind the person. The counter person stared at me and kept working. As the person in front of me was taking more time, I curiously overlooked into what he was doing. Counter Person stared at me and told politely to stand back. As soon as he finished, I was called and when I turned back after my business, to my surprise, I saw a long Que behind me standing at little distance which I really did not see due to darkness. Then only I realized my blunder of jumping the queue even when so many people were waiting patiently. But the fact that no one from the queue shouted at me or made any noise though they were watching me over from behind.- Another experience - A foreigner came to occupy the seat next to my friend in the flight from Milan to Doha and on seeing a newspaper placed in his seat, he asked my friend( seated next to seat) to remove the news paper from the seat. Since he did not respond( probably it was not kept by him) the foreigner shouted at my friend " I will throw you out of this flight if you don’t remove papers immediately" .
- These incidents shows different behavior by different people in almost similar situations. I being the culprit in two occasions, these incidents made became unforgettable. But then I related all these incidents how we would have reacted in our country in such situations. Is the society or individual responsible for such behaviors ?
- The culture of a society ultimately being the overall manifestation of individual habits, cultivating these good virtues( habits) in early stages could be one among the many solutions.
