the culture of prague
hours after each posting, i've realized there are some basic things about the city and its people i have neglected to mention.
the people here - and the entire culture, really - are very humble. they are very nice, and it is very common to hear "dobry den" when entering a store, no matter who's in there, and "ahoj" when leaving. in addition, drivers are pretty considerate when letting people cross the street at cross-walks (granted, i'm coming from a new york city and a washington dc point of view).
tax and tip are included in the price of most every menu selection. what a nice, smart thing to do.
and there sure are a lot of casinos. everywhere. they're called "hernas", but we like to call them "hernias".
two quick stories:
kyle and i went to the grocery yesterday, and bought lots of food... including some onions. apparently there's a scale next to the produce section for people to weigh their fruits and veggies, which we totally missed. the cashier babbled something indecipherable in czech to us, and then, with a disgusted look on her face, ended up going to the scale on the other side of the store and printing out the appropriate price sticker. that ended up pissing off not just the cashier, but all the locals in line behind us. whoops. that's a mistake you only make once.
we also completely blew out the electricity last night... for a couple of engineers, you'd think that we'd know that you need to convert the voltage from the european system to the states' version. well, yea, not so much. ended up killing electricity to the entire apartment. fortunately, no other apartments in the building were affected, and the landlord (who's super cool) was able to turn our electricity back on... only for us to kill the electricity again, and have him turn it back on... again.
but now we have onions in our fridge, electricity (and internet!) in our apartment, and 25-cent beers in the fridge. it's an odd thing to walk into a store tonight, and not buy beers because they were too expensive, at a dollar each.
tak ahoj
the people here - and the entire culture, really - are very humble. they are very nice, and it is very common to hear "dobry den" when entering a store, no matter who's in there, and "ahoj" when leaving. in addition, drivers are pretty considerate when letting people cross the street at cross-walks (granted, i'm coming from a new york city and a washington dc point of view).
tax and tip are included in the price of most every menu selection. what a nice, smart thing to do.
and there sure are a lot of casinos. everywhere. they're called "hernas", but we like to call them "hernias".
two quick stories:
kyle and i went to the grocery yesterday, and bought lots of food... including some onions. apparently there's a scale next to the produce section for people to weigh their fruits and veggies, which we totally missed. the cashier babbled something indecipherable in czech to us, and then, with a disgusted look on her face, ended up going to the scale on the other side of the store and printing out the appropriate price sticker. that ended up pissing off not just the cashier, but all the locals in line behind us. whoops. that's a mistake you only make once.
we also completely blew out the electricity last night... for a couple of engineers, you'd think that we'd know that you need to convert the voltage from the european system to the states' version. well, yea, not so much. ended up killing electricity to the entire apartment. fortunately, no other apartments in the building were affected, and the landlord (who's super cool) was able to turn our electricity back on... only for us to kill the electricity again, and have him turn it back on... again.
but now we have onions in our fridge, electricity (and internet!) in our apartment, and 25-cent beers in the fridge. it's an odd thing to walk into a store tonight, and not buy beers because they were too expensive, at a dollar each.
tak ahoj
posted by David at 10:12 PM
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