Indian Indians Are Annoying

I hate to say it, but Indian people, and I mean people who have been raised in India, can be so annoying! I say this as a waitress and as a fellow traveler and as a fellow citizen to be frank. Indian people born and raised outside of India or at least raised outside of India are fine. It's just the caste system or something, and yes it is still there. I mean as a waitress, I had a whole group that would always come in. I stopped taking their table, because they would have 10-20 people, they would order tons of food, I would be really nice, stay pretty much out of their way, but keep drinks full, food read, plates cleared, etc, and I would hear them making snide remarks about me, and then they would leave me maybe a $5 tip if I was lucky. On the other hand, my white male coworkers would serve them, and they would easily get respect, $50-$60 tips, etc. So we all knew they knew how to be nice and tip well. But a female server who was not white was below them, and apparently those of us who fit that description are meant to serve them. I had another table, a couple, who would always come in. I had no problems serving them. They tipped horribly to be and better to my white male coworkers. But at the same point in time, they were fairly quiet, never made snide remarks, were gracious toward their servers in general, etc, and that I can handle. But it always did bug me with the tip thing still the same.

Then there's the planes. I mean I'm not a real talker on planes, because I understand it's weird for some other people, it's weird for me! But I've ridden to Korea from San Francisco and LA before. LA, there's always a lot of Koreans, and San Francisco it's always tons of Indians on their way to India. We're a layover to them apparently. Anyway, there is always this smell with a lot of Indian passengers, the older people always cut in front of huge lines of people waiting for the bathroom, they always have their seat reclined as far back as it will go, and when you're having meals, the stewardesses will come and sit their seat up, and they will wait till she leaves and then set it back again. And I swear, sitting on the aisle seat with an Indian guy and his mom, I was forced to get up every 5 minutes so that they could walk around randomly or go to the bathroom or something. And sadly, I am not actually exaggerating. they woke me up more than once, it was about a 20 hour flight!

And then there's the guy on the plane ride. He locked himself in the bathroom to smoke. It's illegal to smoke in the bathrooms. But he was in there for a solid half hour. So I woke up to the stewardess knocking on the door saying sir please come out, sir please open the door. I looked back and she said oh he's smoking in there. This went on for a while more, at which point she kept saying sir we know you're smoking in there, just come out. Finally, they found out what seat was his and came back, said his name, and said sir we have just charged your credit card X amount, basically the fee for disabling a smoke detector, smoking in the bathroom, etc. At that point, he came out, yelled, screamed, it was interesting. But honestly, the thing I hate is a lot of times it just seems like they feel like they are entitled to be above everyone else and have everyone else bow down to them or something.