From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "Adam"  writes:   
      
   > Martha Bridegam wrote:   
      
   >> For about a month one college summer I lived in northern Virginia   
   >> and commuted to Washington by bus and Metro. Each morning, when our   
   >> bus from the suburbs would empty out at the Metro station, every   
   >> single exiting passenger would thank the driver on the way   
   >> out. Never seen anything like it.   
   >>   
   >> Is it English custom to thank bus drivers this way?   
   >>   
   >> /M   
   >   
   > Yes, it still is where I am. Most do. But less so than 20 years ago   
   > i'd say.   
      
   It is fairly common, tho far from universal, in Boston.   
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