More Genevois Quirks

More quirks:

• Buses in Geneva don't require that you show your bus pass and are rarely monitored.
• Women's sweaters are called "jumpers".
• It's generally respected that you don't take showers or flush the toilets after 10pm.
• Tenants of an apartment building have certain days on which they can do their laundry. You are not permitted to do laundry on other days.
• There are large political, cultural, and social rifts between eastern (German) and Western (French) Switzerland.
• English is now the second language taught after German to children in eastern Switzerland (above French and Italian).