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When I was young and getting my driving license in Madrid I had to take a bus to the place were exams were done, in the south of Madrid(Mostoles). A friend of

When I was young and getting my driving license in Madrid I had to take a bus to the place were exams were done, in the south of Madrid(Mostoles). A friend of mine worked on IKEA and he told me that it was a lot of expectation as the founder had gone to Spain and it was taking the same bus that I took in order to visit the stores in Spain. It was surprising to me that someone owning billions will take the bus, while I was trying so hard to earn the necessary money in order to get rid of it.

reacweb 9y ago
There is a difference between behaving like a poor for ethnological interest vs being obliged.
- jimktrains2 9y ago
  Riding a bus is not behaving like the poor.
  - moltar 9y ago
    It depends where you live ;)
kgwgk 9y ago
He also tried to have his hair cut when visiting a cheap country. Maybe he did it in Spain...
- Moru 9y ago
  If you ever had a haircut in sweden you know why...
  - piva00 9y ago
    Yup, a cheap haircut is about €20, I pay around €70 for mine in a mid-high-end salon but have seen places up to €120. I'm a man.
    - jacquesm 9y ago
      Get a $20 buzzer and cut it yourself. 70 euros to cut your hair is way overpriced.
      - Double_a_92 9y ago
        Works for the sides, but how to do make a smooth transition to the top? Without cutting it equally short everywhere?
        jacquesm 9y ago
        > Without cutting it equally short everywhere? That was my solution :) Saved me a couple of grand over the years.
        oblio 9y ago
        That doesn't always work, depending on the shape of your head, the texture of your hair, etc. I for one don't care about it much, and my job allows me not to care, but many people do care for both personal and professional reasons. Any kind of job where you want to persuade people basically requires the best look you can afford. It's basically an investment.
        jacquesm 9y ago
        Gah to think of all the times I managed to fail to persuade people because I have short hair :) To me it is a mix of feeling that spending money on cutting my hair is wasteful, spending time to go to a hairdresser is wasteful and so on. It's just a maintenance chore. And I don't feel it has ever caused me to perform subpar in my job or to have people take my arguments less serious. But I can see that form some people this might be the case. In a way this is a luxury that men can afford themselves, if a woman would go to work with a very short hair it would immediately count as some statement rather than being efficient.
        sooheon 9y ago
aianus 9y ago
The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use his car for the test while he waited around.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  It's like your experience in Switzerland.
- JorgeGT 9y ago
  This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg In Spain you usually enroll in a driving school where you have theoretical lessons (there's a theoretical exam that you must pass) and then they give you driving lessons with their adapted car. When you're ready an official from the corresponding ministry joins you and your instructor one day for a practical test on the street/highway.
  - mamon 9y ago
    It is exactly the same way in Poland - second set of pedals for the instructor. You are supposed to do your whole course and exam in such an adapted car.
  - closeparen 9y ago
    In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. Do you really go straight from driving school to road test with no learner’s permit phase?
    - aianus 9y ago
      You need to log the hours in the US, really? In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log anything or prove that you did it, you're just not allowed to drive by yourself.
INTPenis 9y ago
Well he tends to setup a minibus and travel with some close co-workers that are needed along the way. But sure he could take a bus in spain and no one would recognize him. The minibus is just more efficient.
jernfrost 9y ago
The king of Norway in the 70s, Olav the 5th took the tram with regular Norwegians. This was during the oil crisis so it was a way of showing solidarity with citizens who could no longer afford to drive. I think trying to not put yourself too high about everybody else is a cherished ideal in Scandinavian countries. It has not gone down well that the present crown prince and princess transferred their kids to private school e.g. They claim it is to immerse them more in english. But people are not happy about it.

reacweb 9y ago

There is a difference between behaving like a poor for ethnological interest vs being obliged.

jimktrains2 9y ago
Riding a bus is not behaving like the poor.
- moltar 9y ago
  It depends where you live ;)

kgwgk 9y ago

He also tried to have his hair cut when visiting a cheap country. Maybe he did it in Spain...

Moru 9y ago
If you ever had a haircut in sweden you know why...
- piva00 9y ago
  Yup, a cheap haircut is about €20, I pay around €70 for mine in a mid-high-end salon but have seen places up to €120. I'm a man.
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    Get a $20 buzzer and cut it yourself. 70 euros to cut your hair is way overpriced.
    - Double_a_92 9y ago
      Works for the sides, but how to do make a smooth transition to the top? Without cutting it equally short everywhere?
      - jacquesm 9y ago
        > Without cutting it equally short everywhere? That was my solution :) Saved me a couple of grand over the years.
        oblio 9y ago
        That doesn't always work, depending on the shape of your head, the texture of your hair, etc. I for one don't care about it much, and my job allows me not to care, but many people do care for both personal and professional reasons. Any kind of job where you want to persuade people basically requires the best look you can afford. It's basically an investment.
        jacquesm 9y ago
        Gah to think of all the times I managed to fail to persuade people because I have short hair :) To me it is a mix of feeling that spending money on cutting my hair is wasteful, spending time to go to a hairdresser is wasteful and so on. It's just a maintenance chore. And I don't feel it has ever caused me to perform subpar in my job or to have people take my arguments less serious. But I can see that form some people this might be the case. In a way this is a luxury that men can afford themselves, if a woman would go to work with a very short hair it would immediately count as some statement rather than being efficient.
      - sooheon 9y ago

aianus 9y ago

The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use his car for the test while he waited around.

Double_a_92 9y ago
It's like your experience in Switzerland.
JorgeGT 9y ago
This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg In Spain you usually enroll in a driving school where you have theoretical lessons (there's a theoretical exam that you must pass) and then they give you driving lessons with their adapted car. When you're ready an official from the corresponding ministry joins you and your instructor one day for a practical test on the street/highway.
- mamon 9y ago
  It is exactly the same way in Poland - second set of pedals for the instructor. You are supposed to do your whole course and exam in such an adapted car.
- closeparen 9y ago
  In the US, teenagers need to log tens/hundreds of hours driving under their parents’s supervision (on a learner’s permit) between the instructor driving sessions and the official road test. Do you really go straight from driving school to road test with no learner’s permit phase?
  - aianus 9y ago
    You need to log the hours in the US, really? In Canada I just did 4 hours with an instructor and then went for the test and bought a car. Most people drive around with their parents for 8 months on a permit but you don't have to log anything or prove that you did it, you're just not allowed to drive by yourself.

INTPenis 9y ago

Well he tends to setup a minibus and travel with some close co-workers that are needed along the way. But sure he could take a bus in spain and no one would recognize him. The minibus is just more efficient.

jernfrost 9y ago

The king of Norway in the 70s, Olav the 5th took the tram with regular Norwegians. This was during the oil crisis so it was a way of showing solidarity with citizens who could no longer afford to drive. I think trying to not put yourself too high about everybody else is a cherished ideal in Scandinavian countries. It has not gone down well that the present crown prince and princess transferred their kids to private school e.g. They claim it is to immerse them more in english. But people are not happy about it.