But one thing I still cannot get over is arriving at the bus-stop at 9.33 and the 9.33 bus has come and gone. I keep making the clock on my cellphone one minute fast but this sometimes still doesn't seem to work.
Yesterday some dude (probably foreigner) stalled his car half on the sidewalk and I gave him a dirty look as I passed. On a Sunday for Dog's sake. Shudder.
Being swiss is
1) Thinking its normal that a small paper and card shop staffed by 4 people should close for 1-2 hours so all the staff can have lunch at the same time
2) Accepting that Migro and Co-op spinkle some fairy dust on their fruit and vegetables which makes them magically rot 2 days after you buy them.
I haven't been here that long really but am starting for feel myself morphing! I actually bought cocktail sauce for BURGERS the other day
I've given this some more though and have found the following:
- be seriously annoyed that SOME PEOPLE just dont respect "ruhezeit"...even the afternoon one between 12 and 13.30
- all home & garden gadgets MUST be electronical; you seriously cant be see mowing your lawn (outside of ruhezeit off course) with a handmower, godforbid... , same goes for leaf collecter, snow shoveller, trimmer, hedge shears, high-pressure car cleaner hose etc etc etc. never seen so many people do nothing by hand here..
- think its totally normal to exchange your car for the latest model every 2 years
- sigh in silent irritation when the postman is late (my personal favorite)
It's not just the Swiss who don't use their car indicators, most other European countries count them as optional too.
Not only that, but many American drivers think that the use of turn signals is optional... Def not a Swiss thing.
I also tend to get irritated these days when I have to actually WAIT for a bus/tram to arrive in a city outside Switzerland. That's not the way public transport should work, is it?
Are you upset that there are not enough places to recycle used Nespresso cartridges?
I getting to be a little bit swiss you know
I understand that 100 years ago, it was possible to drill through 11 km of solid mountain rock thousands of meters above sea level in 20 years, but in 2010 to patch up 300 meters of road in my village can take nearly 3 years .
On the motorway, you find radar speed traps painted to resemble cows quite normal (or is this just a Geneva-canton thing?).
hehehe wow very amusin to read
guess im not a swiss yet
because the only thing i hate is that when people get too much tissue paper from starbucks and mcdonalds when they dont really need it, not an issue before bec was one of them too but certainly that changed when i got here
We've only been in Basel 2 weeks and yet strangers have talked to us nearly everyday. We have been in the shops discussing things in english and locals that can understand us have chimed in - in a very nice way - to give us advice on what to buy or to explain things - if they hear us trying to figure out what the signs mean or what type of food delicacies we are looking at in the glass cabinets. I love it!!!
Being swiss is
1) Thinking its normal that a small paper and card shop staffed by 4 people should close for 1-2 hours so all the staff can have lunch at the same time
2) Accepting that Migro and Co-op spinkle some fairy dust on their fruit and vegetables which makes them magically rot 2 days after you buy them.
Thanks...wondered why this happened.
Although they must be a bit heavy handed with the fairy dust, because the stuff is sometimes already rotting away quite happily by itself, waiting on the shelf so you can accidently buy it........
I bought some brocolli on Saturday for my Sunday roast, cut it open, brown and rotten to the core, I was so mad They must have introduced the fairy dust via înjection.
...thinking it's reasonable for the polizei to park their big blue van halfway on the pavement, halfway across a pedestrian crossing, partly blocking a side road entrance, at night with no lights on....so they can interrogate an innocent person who 'looks a bit foreign' stood on the other side of the street minding their own business...(no it wasn't me)
So we are obviously not Swiss, otherwise we would happily accept this rottenness.....
Why does it happen in this normally pristine country?? And why aren't they bothered..??
I believe you all, but remind me of giving you the address of my Coop, I never bought a rotten thing there. Or was it me choosing the right products.... maybe will we ever know.
People ARE bothered. This is the reason why you see so many people wandering around in the Vegetables and fruit area, tracing for good-looking stuff. Generally, the situation has rather worsened, not least due to the trucks coming from the South, have to wait for up to 36 hours before being allowed to the through the San Gottardo. Some branch managers weed out their shelves personally, because, as one of them recently told me, if you allow limp or wrotten stuff to stay in the shelves, the problem is spreading.
A quite widespread problem however is that many stores here around are too warm inside. And this includes quite many Migros and Coop outlets.
not acting Swiss yet, not arriving until next week, but how on earth do you start a thread on here?
You just have a really silly opinion and decide to write about it on your puta......