When living in Switzerland, you do as the Swiss do, and you keep good time. Its rude to turn up at someones house late. Even 5 minutes fashionably late does not do. The whole country works constantly to time, (well not surprisingly when it still manufactures some of the best time pieces in the world) the gleaming trains and trams run effortlessly, gliding into and out of the platforms on time. The Swiss start looking at their watches impatiently if the tram looks like its even 1 minute late. It is an expectation that people and services all run to time. Here in the UK, I have to readjust, my husband has to be grateful if an overcrowded grubby train rolls into the platform in the morning, and the return journey has to have at least 1 half hour delay, we have experienced this twice already in only 4 days of commuting. Workmen too, in Switzerland they will give you a time and they stick to it, never late. Sometimes appointments really early in the morning, often had the water softener done at 07.30am so I can get on with the day. Now just today, I have waited for an appointment quote 'any time after 12.30am'. Its now 4pm and the electrician has just this minute come to repair a ceiling rose which fell out the ceiling. I was told amidst the stacks of boxes by my letting agent to push the rose back into the ceiling. Yeah...thats going to stay there for about 2 seconds. No, do your job, call someone out and get the job done! There was a huge whole in the ceiling, and 2 tiny screws keeping the rose in place, anyone could see that it was not fit for purpose!
We have, already had the baptism of fire; yesterday screw related casualties were a toilet roll holder, Laura my daughter pulled the loo roll and half the holder fell off. Alice, 2nd daughter puts the retaining band back on the curtain and half of the rail falls off...we are not doing too well so far! We may be returning our rental property in better condition than we found it at this rate!
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