Norma and Robert Chase were delighted to be invited to dinner at the home of people they had just met while visiting Berlin, Germany. They showed up at 7:30 p.m., half an hour after the appointed time, as they might have done in the United States, where arriving “fashionably late” is usually acceptable.
Charles Costa was strolling down a crowded sidewalk in London when he accidentally bumped into another man heading in the opposite direction. Before Mr. Costa could say he was sorry, the other gentleman apologized to him.
