a Bit of memory from Portugal

Now I just realized why I really liked Portugal and said the people are friendlier than Spaniards. This traces back to the time when I was in Porto.

I walked into a very tiny grocery store on the streets and the owner was on the phone crunching on some chips. So I walked around and found what I wanted and went to pay.

Then he dropped the phone and calculated how much I had to pay. And then he said something that amazed me:
"Oh, I am being really rude, I should've have asked you if you wanted some chips! Would you like some?"

So I was looking at him thinking to myself," Are you serious? that's your bag of chips and you can do whatever the hell with those! How can people be so nice here?"

It was not very big of a deal to say things like this but he said it! It certainly higher my impression on the Portuguese.