Really, it doesn't bother me and I'm certainly not complaining, but I have noticed that in America when people drive you home and drop you off they tend to wait until they see that you've made it safely inside before pulling away. Australians are out of sight before you're entirely out of the car. (See posts at chivalry ... though this usually extends to female drivers as well.)
I understand that, in Australia, I live on a street where sometimes cars are waiting behind (fair enough) and it's a very safe area where I'd be exceedingly unlikely to have trouble making it inside my building and even if I did I could grab my cell phone and immediately call them back for help ... and in America I live in the middle of a vast, scary-at-night woods with no other houses around and the actual road a quarter mile away ... but still. It's the principle of the thing.
Not that I'm complaining!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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We like to wait until the person has opened their door (particularly if the person we're dropping off is female). I'd feel like such a heel if I left someone at their home and found out later that they hadn't been able to get in because they'd lost their key / locked themselves out.
My mother always asks the person to turn on their front light when they get in so she knows they haven't had a blackout / an intruder cut the electricity. Perhaps a little paranoid, but still nice to know she's thinking of your safety.
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