Only crazy and drunk Swedes talk to strangers

Well as you probably know I'm still looking for a job at the moment and as I receive money from the Government for looking for work, they punish me by forcing me to sit at a computer 4 mornings a week in Fremantle (the port city here in Perth) and look for work. Anyway I went to a coffee shop yesterday in Fremantle and got a great reminder of some Swedish culture that I haven't been missing since returning home. Out the front of the shop there was a group of young Swedish men (not quite the shemales you see in Malmo Nation, but Swedish nonetheless) drinking coffee. I walk in and order my coffee and the two girls at the counter started complaining to me about how rude that group of guys were. Apparently they had been to the coffee shop each of the last 4 days and never made eye contact or conversation. They would walk in, abruptly make their orders for coffee, ask how long it will take, pay their money and leave, without a "please" or a "thank you". I told them that Swedes are not used to receiving customer service and next time they could do the following to make them feel more at home:

• ask them to take a ticket
• tell them that they only serve coffee between 9:45 and 10:45 Monday to Wednesday and between 1:15 and 2:15 on Fridays
• tell them that they have run out of coffee
• tell them that coffee can only be bought if you show 4 pieces of photographic ID and a prescription from your doctor
• just ignore them
• charge them 25% VAT