Read Part I first.
The results of the Survey are as stunning as the methodology itself. And if you don't get the point - my MR Prof choked on his pie as he was reading the RD over dinner. No one told him a Digest is for post dinner consumption.
Anyway, coming back to the results, New York city surprised many, including many a New Yorker, by coming on top in courtesy. However, the news reporter of the news channel I was watching (I swear this is true) was quite upset by the fact that only one American city figured in this survey conducted across 35 cities from 35 countries. His newscast was immediately followed by the song 'We are the world'.
New Yorkers however were thrilled by the results. Infact they're so nice and civil that, I hear they've invited the RD dude over to interview him about his broken nose. They've even offered him a free cup of Starbucks' coffee. Delivered.
The citizen of other American cities, while happy for NYC, claim that they could've done even better. Infact, a shopkeeper in Dallas said that he pulled out the door to his shop last summer, so the RD dude could've come in anytime without bodily injury.
This strategy however did not work for shopkeepers in Mumbai, which came last among the 35. The shops in Mumbai that do not have doors claim that their city lost 20 points because well, there was no door for anyone to open. And the citizen claim that they couldn't make 20 points even in shops that had doors, coz the shops employed doormen.
In the 'Doc Drop Test' where the damsel dropped her papers, it apparently poured cats and dogs in Mumbai that day, and consequently, even she didn't want to pick the soggy papers. So that cost the city another twenty points.
The results of the third test in Bombay (the shopping test) is now mired in controversy. The city has been denied its twenty points here too, but the shopkeepers are disputing this. They say the dude took umbrage to the fact that they were chewing paan when they thanked him for shopping here. And they insist that he came in with a white shirt with red dots.
Meanwhile, a senior minister in the cabinet pointed out that the fact that Mumbai does not have Starbucks and Victoria's Secret was the actual reason behind it's losing. But he refused to allow the westernization of the city and the degeneration of it's moral fabric, by allowing these stores. The Minister further pointed out that the reporters had not travelled by Local Trains where Mumbai's courtest can be seen at it's best.
Anyway, the good news for Bombay is that Lahore and Islamabad did not figure in the survey.
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