The Seattle Freeze (no, it's not weather related)
I'd been trying for a while to figure out a way to describe Seattle, and the current "half Hippie, half asshole" wasn't cutting it. So I'm dropping the "asshole" part and adding in this:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html
"But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
We're the ideal seatmate on an airplane. We slide in, exchange a smile and a succinct pleasantry, then leave you be for the rest of the flight. Alaska Airlines should capitalize on this with ads that promise: "Uninterrupted service from Seattle - and we mean it."
Although that article tends to be excessively negative, and starts repeating itself to drive its point home, I can totally agree with that feeling. And I'll bet that almost everyone reading this journal is propagator of Genuine Seattle Hospitality: Very nice, very polite, very independent.
Cayt, does this help explain why it's so hard to make friends?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html
"But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
We're the ideal seatmate on an airplane. We slide in, exchange a smile and a succinct pleasantry, then leave you be for the rest of the flight. Alaska Airlines should capitalize on this with ads that promise: "Uninterrupted service from Seattle - and we mean it."
Although that article tends to be excessively negative, and starts repeating itself to drive its point home, I can totally agree with that feeling. And I'll bet that almost everyone reading this journal is propagator of Genuine Seattle Hospitality: Very nice, very polite, very independent.
Cayt, does this help explain why it's so hard to make friends?