Octa

Well it was a Saturday morning and snowing. I stopped in the station under the awning to change a puncture.
The rather impolite woman employing the best that Belgium has to offer in customer service told me rudely to sling my hook since I was blocking access to customers. I invited her to consider the complete lack of any customers at 9AM on a Saturday morning and the fact that it was snowing and that I would only take 10 minutes to change a tire.
She was not for turning.
Octa has lost a customer.
The more I see of this type of rude offensive customer service in Belgium the more I understand why Ireland is famous around the world for its friendliness and wellcomiing attitude towards strangers.
This would not happen in Ireland.