Las cositas raras de Buenos Aires (the strange things about Buenos Aires)

- many people walking around with hard-case brief cases – either its to protect the valuables or everyone’s walking around with large amounts of money
- lack of storm drain system
- have to use a key to leave the building or let people in
- have to tell the bus driver of your destination before paying
- the prices of items in grocery stores vary from store to store but also within the same store, they vary from day to day, and hour to hour
- many people sleep on public transportation
- people selling socks on the street
- kids’ school uniforms are like lab coats
- subway making everyone get off and then wait for the next already full one
- pastas and sauces are priced separately
- olive oil is ridiculously expensive – it seems logical that with all of the wine that’s in this country, there would be an equal amount of olive oil produced, but they must export a large quantity of it, leaving the natives to pay exorbitant amounts for the small amount available
- monedero (the subway card) is more modern than most subway cards, but the bus still only takes coins and spits out a little slip of paper of which I don’t know the function (although, there was an official on the bus one time that was checking everyone’s tickets)
- pedestrians have no right of way, even when green, some cars will slow down but right up until they almost hit you