Norwegians have a warped relationship to a lot of things usually considered cheap, such as chinese food. Come to Norway, here chinese food is not considered "take-away" or anything like that, but will cost you a LOT of money.
Taxi, super expensive. No such thing as that smelly, cheap taxi. Taxis here actually use car perfume, to fake a new-car-smell, and they cost - a LOT... of money.
Bus...
THE BUS
Norwegians don't see the bus as "a cheap, affordable, every-man's way of getting around" nope, didn't even enter their minds. In Norway the bus is "a green solution!" a "environmentally friendly option!" and as such, they use top-of-the-line vehicles, the seats are super-ultra comfy, and a simple inner city ticket costs... a LOT... of money (for an inner city ticket) according to a converter, 6.6 dollars, and it has only been promised to rise, and rise steeply - "for the sake of offering trendy environmental - " OH GOD SHUT UUUUP!!!
I WANT MY BUS SMELLY AND NOISY!!! AT LEAST IT WOULD BE AFFORDABLE THEN! ITS A BUS!!!!!!!!!
But on top of that, they're assholes.
You have to basically try for a suicidal leap in front of the bus, or they will usually ignore the fuck out of you.
Another delightful thing they do is:
Let's say you wait for bus "A", at a stop where all buses take you to the city.
But! You need to grab bus A, because you are going through the city, to a specific place, that only bus A will go to, whereas all other buses passing through that stop go to the city, and turn there.
So, what happens is:
Bus B arrives, with MY bus A right behind. Bus A sees that bus B "got it covered", and will just turn around, and wooooosh the hell away. Since I deliberately ignored bus B, they are - before I know it - both gone.
-.-
yesterday me and a friend missed THREE buses, because we weren't sprinty enough to LAUNCH ourselves infront of the bus to stop it, and had to sit there for a fuckin hour.
At that point we were dreaming about spiking their xmas punch with HIV infected blood or something...
