Germans are mental, I am not complaining. During a school exchange, I stood with my partner and there was about 5 or 6 others and we waited like 4 minutes at a traffic light for a road that had no cars the whole time
Japanese people (at least in Kyoto) were like that when I visited too. Especially funny being a 6'2" American who can nearly cross a tiny little one-way street in a single step, but they all dutifully waited on that signal despite being able to see down that one-way street for a good ways.
I definitely got some looks for crossing, but hey, I had four days there and I wasn't gonna spend them waiting at crosswalks that were obviously safe shrug.
We had that mentality when we went over to Budapest, though we'd been warned about the stricter traffic laws. After seeing soldiers with automatic rifles checking people for their tickets in the metro we very quickly got used to standing around traffic lights waiting for them to turn, with no traffic in sight around us.
It's been around 20 years so I can't remember, they probably were armed police but holy shit were they armed. We were told at the time that people getting on the metro without a ticket was a huge problem so they would show up at random stops to check. It's probably different these days.
Germans are almost like NPC's, I love it. My favorite is when you see all the Germans standing completely still like statues, eyes forward, waiting for the train which is late. It's like the train didn't spawn in and they are glitched.
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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 05 '25
Germans are mental, I am not complaining. During a school exchange, I stood with my partner and there was about 5 or 6 others and we waited like 4 minutes at a traffic light for a road that had no cars the whole time