Something the Swiss Suck At

So the Swiss actually suck at something. Ironically, it's snow removal from streets. It's nonexistent in Geneva. This past week, a storm dropped around 3 inches of snow and in the morning it looked like the movie The Day After Tomorrow - with French subtitles.

I witnessed two buses (including the one that I was on at the time) break down in the MIDDLE of intersections and tie up all four directions. In typical Genevois fashion, no one honked or even shouted - a handful of drivers actually got out of their cars and started to joke with the bus driver, who had decided to leave his stranded rig and observe the hijinks from the corner while having a cigarette. I saw an Opel, with its brakes apparently locked, begin to franticly drive towards the median and jackknive until it was nearly perpendicular to the direction of traffic. The funny thing? The cars behind it followed suit like lemmings and at least one of them was jamming a Euro remix of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". It was as if someone had shut off their ability to think independently or maybe make U-turns. The more successful ones had cars not developed by General Motors. The smarter ones turned off the street. The dumber ones took out their mobiles and started to call their insurance companies while sliding.