Is it illegal to...

[chefsmith]

Murder or seriously injure the next Person who

- tries to force themselves into that 2cm gap between me and the ubahn doors

- pokes me with two fingers into my ribs rather than say excuse me when they want me to move on the ubahn

- invades my personal space whilst shouting at me for something trivialistically trivial

- decides it's fine to lean into my car to tell me to turn the engine off whilst im outside someones apartment waiting for them

- pushes in front of me in a queue, as if i dont exist

I'm actually *this* close to seriously flipping out at the next rude person.

Surely there's some kind of get out of jail free card that someone knows?

[Dagnamski]

Hole punch a medenzettel or it is invalid.

New on me but i did larF!

[loulou]

Yes, it's illegal as hell, unfortunately. I do empathise with you on these except for:

- decides it's fine to lean into my car to tell me to turn the engine off whilst im outside someones apartment waiting for them

Sorry, but I find this a royal pain. It is noise and actual pollution going on outside someone's front door, excuse me.

[Bramish]

I assume something happened yesterday that sent you over the edge? Same with me - what is the deal with people in Vienna and queueing?! How difficult a concept is it to understand? And the absence of pleases and thankyous in my direction at work baffles and annoys me - I don't understand people who have a lack of basic manners, especially when I'm the one making their drinks and food. I talked to my Austrian girlfriend about it and she finds it irritating too but said that being polite is just not the Austrian way, which I find hard to accept.

[beanbag]

Yes, it's illegal as hell, unfortunately. I do empathise with you on these except for:

- decides it's fine to lean into my car to tell me to turn the engine off whilst im outside someones apartment waiting for them

Sorry, but I find this a royal pain. It is noise and actual pollution going on outside someone's front door, excuse me.

I'm sorry but in this weather it's rather nice to sit in the car with the engine running to keep the heating going. Plus, there are nothing but butterflies, bees and daisies coming out from the back of my exhaust.

[chefsmith]

Yes, it's illegal as hell, unfortunately. I do empathise with you on these except for:

- decides it's fine to lean into my car to tell me to turn the engine off whilst im outside someones apartment waiting for them

Sorry, but I find this a royal pain. It is noise and actual pollution going on outside someone's front door, excuse me.

If i was parked outside someones front door in a diesel for half an hour, yeah fair enough, if they asked me to move or turn off engine, but thats not what happened.
Some busybody Austrian walking past thought it's perfectly acceptable to lean into the car and start ranting 3 inches from my face, i'm not an aggressive person, but i genuinely dont think he realises how close he came to getting put on his arse.

I know part of this busybody-ness keeps Vienna safe and all that, but i would like to send these rude people into an English housing estate for a while and see how far they get without queing and ranting into peoples faces, they'd get as far as the hospital me thinks

[loulou]

Some busybody Austrian walking past thought it's perfectly acceptable to lean into the car and start ranting 3 inches from my face, i'm not an aggressive person, but i genuinely dont think he realises how close he came to getting put on his arse.

Yes, this is extremely annoying. I hate the way some people are incapable of minding their own business. Some of them must leading very boring lives, to want to observe complete strangers doing trivial things (which I have often noticed and I HATE it!) or actually poke their noses in where it is not wanted. This is a trait of many people here which I really dislike.

[macguy14]

This stuff only happens in Austria. This narrowmindedness is really a physical trait. Where they see something they don't like and everything else blacks out. so they push or pump or poke or yell, b'c they can't see anything else, literally. not to mention figuratively like privacy, context, the bigger picture.
(perhaps you just parked the car ie.)

i saw an old man yell at a kid yesterday for having his shoelace untied.
and then in the evening a fat guy with a dagger look in his face, run across the street to yell at a group of kids to pick up a newspaper they threw on the ground.

1. mind your own business.
2. if i were those kids, i would just next time throw 4 newspapers on the ground to spite him.
(if he wants to intrude, which in some aspect sure, littering is def not cool, but to approach them as an adult and mentor and say 'hey, hi guys i noticed u just dropped the paper, thats kinda not cool, there is a trash can right over there, would it be ok if i asked u to pick it up. i understand u guys are having fun and just playing around but theres other things to do than that.."
you know what i mean....

[Pope]

easy on the "this stuff only happens in Austria"... there are people all over the world like this... the battles are just different... Not that I understand why I need to be yelled at by someone I have never seen in my life about how they think I should live my life...

[macguy14]

i know i know..but seriously, for work for 3 years i traveled to a different city every week...and it always baffles me what i only experience here..

[elileit]

I had to laugh when I saw those comments. I thought I was the only one who thought the rudest people were in the ubahn. So I will throw my two cents in

1) I wasn't fast enough to scoot over the corner seat and some kid ended up sitting on my hand and told me to move over. Him and his friend started talking and kept laughing in my face (I understand and speak german but they weren't saying about me). And then when they left the subway they started banging on the window I was sitting next to.
2) A woman in front of me had one of those small rolly suitcases and the woman behind me was pushing me into the train. She was shorter then me and couldn't see that the space between me and the woman was due to a suitcase. She pushed me two times, and when I felt the third push coming, I moved on the side and she tripped over the suitcase. That was my first sign that I've been in Vienna too long
3) I was walking up the LEFT side of the escalators when I said excuse me to a kid in front of me who was blocking the left side. He turns around and tells me to use the stairs.

You know what I've learnt? Have an ipod and headphones .

[chefsmith]

You know what I've learnt? Have an ipod and headphones .

Uh huh

[macguy14]

funny, my austrian roommate and i were shopping today and she had headphones on, and had me listen to the music to see if i liked it, it was chill out music i said.....wasn't my kind of music to listen to randomly;.....but now i get it

[chefsmith]

I never really used Public transport before Vienna and i always thought the people staring into space listening to music were wasters, now i realise its to block people out. I lash in my earphones, and transport myself in a musical coma until i get to work......

Oh and also, whilst were bashing the locals, hockin up phleghm ( sp) and spitting where ever you please is not the most pleasant thing to see either.

I had war with a neighbour over x mas, streets were empty dozens of parking spots, parked the car, put in the parkshein and went home. Went back out 3 hours later, a guy from next building came running out in his dressing gown, absolutely livid, started banging on the car screaming pointing to a private parking sign, of course me being an idiot, of the 30 or so empty parking spots i'd parked in one of the 4 private ones without realising. His anger was waaayyyy beyond this though. i got out asked if he spoke English and he did, so i told him to fcuking relax, genuine mistake, sorry for any hassle, showed him the parkschein and it was a genuine mistake and i'd know for next time, didn't help, guy was foaming at the mouth. He still called the tow company who have issued me a 150 fine even though the car was not there when the truck came, should i pay it? i spoke with the company and they offered to only charge 130, but back home if car not there upon tow truck arriving, tough titty. I know it was my fault, and i know that he probably is sick of it, but the level of rage was just silly, rude and calling the tow truck afterwards was just spiteful.
Anyone had issues with tow charges for cars that were not towed?



Can we make this austrian bashing a sticky ?

Of course, naturally, none of these things happen in the 3rd district

[PartyMarty]

I wouldn't pay, Let them prove you where parked there!