Run Short in Public Transport

At the start the Stranger couldn’t understand the system of public transport in Estonia.

What to buy? How to buy? From whom to buy? How to use?
Yeah, he was one inexperienced bastard in those times.

Actually in every of these public vehicles there were a big yellow stickers (and still are there) saying:
"Do You have a ticket?! Fine for driving without ticket = 600 EEK." Stranger was surprised! Are you for real? 600 EEK?!! What a family circus? 600 EEK are equal to 39 EUR or 50 USD! A bit too much for the Strangers' pocket, I guess. Of course the Stranger being naive from that period of time, started to buy Monthly Cards. He paid 170 EEK (11 Euros) for a month and he could drive all the week days in all the public metal horses for free one month. And what is the most important fact - he had no stress about those 600 EEK I mentioned before.



Here in Tallinn it goes like this - you have a monthly ticket and show it to the FALCK, who are the control crew. So far Stranger has lived in Tallinn for 11 months, but has seen this control crew only three times. So if we do simple mathematical calculations by counting together all he has spent on monthly cards it is 1340 crones, but with three control crew visits in his transport he would have been paid 1800 crones. So the Stranger still feels comfortable about his choice to buy a monthly card. Stranger feels ok with this, but what do other peers say?

"I never buy any tickets or monthly cards. I have never seen these control guys. I don’t actually bother for this stuff. I think that public transport should be for free."

--Benas (foreigner)--

"I had once this accident concerning these control crews. As you maybe might know, the local people here in Tallinn have ID cards. They have an option to transfer the money to these cards monthly and use them in the same way as others are using monthly tickets. So I made a deal with my mother couple of years ago, that she will transfer the money to my account so I would have no trouble using transport. Recently this control crew at last enters the bus I am driving. I show them my ID, but they say that it is empty. Later I found out that my mother forgot to send me money for this transport ages ago, so it means I drove public transport as a cheater couple of years. Oh lucky me, lucky bastard me. But now I decided to get driving license so would have no trouble with this public transport."

--Ott (Local)--

"I always say that I am from Latvia and don’t understand anything. They almost always let me go without paying the fine."

--Zane (foreigner)--

This is what The Stranger has heard from his peers. He is not feeling as lucky as Benas, he knows that the control crew will step sooner or later IN while he will drive the transport.
He is also not feeling that he is able to get the driving license.
He is also not feeling very Latvian to say all these excuses.
He will continue to buy monthly cards, and that will take out one POSSIBLE DANGER that can strike him in any time of the day. Stranger feels as a good citizen and is just ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE DREAM BECOMING AS ONE OF THE Honorary Citizens of Tallinn.

--sarkasc--

Intro Lines Full of Deadly Mines

This is (and will be) an official rumor blog which consist true facts about extraordinary STRANGER (a young male/foreigner, who recently settled in Estonia). So let me cut the INTRO CRAP and start typing, ok?

Good.

They say that Tallinn (Capitol of Estonia) is ranked as one of the most intellectual cities in the world, or even in the whole universe. Of course this intellectual city of intellectuals is somewhat uncomfortable living area for our main hero – The Stranger.

You would ask why?

Well here’s the answer – The Stranger is not an intellectual, he likes to spend his time opening beer instead of “being an intellectual”. So I hope you get the point - if you’re a “beer-loving-non-intellectual” foreigner in the city of intellectuals, there is plenty of “Intellectual” DANGER lurking around you.



Now we are in the test period, but later it looks like we will try to put up the biggest dangers, that lurked around our STRANGER during the time he spent in Tallinn so far. And then try to get into more new dangers together with our Stranger. Pictures, Videos and comments from eyewitnesses also will be included.

--sarkasc--