A woman who complained on travel website Fodor's about Malta having the rudest people was contradicted by all 10 commenters who replied.
The contributor, who did not give her name, wrote that she is currently in Malta. For the last decade, she said, she had spent a substantial portion of her time travelling much of the world. "My most vivid memory of Malta will be the overt rudeness of people wherever I've gone. This has been particularly true of men of a certain age - taxi and bus drivers without exception, a man on a bus who berated me because I wanted to sit in the empty seat next to him, a man in the street today who arrived at a corner as I did and knocked me aside. Such things have happened to me every day with such regularity that I've come to expect it and have not been disappointed." She said the women tend to be surly rather than overtly rude. However one in the cafe' adjacent to her hotel interrupted her to shout at her when she guessed wrong what she was about to ask her. "There have, of course, been exceptions but the balance has been so heavily toward rude that the occasions of kindness have been memorable. The staff in two of the four places I've stayed have...
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