The Swedish punctuality, tick, tack, tick, tack!

A word that was unknown to me until I lived in Sweden, punctuality. Every day I must run to get the bus, the train or the tram. It always happens me the same, since here they always run on time, exactly on the minute. What I have never seen before is that the urban buses also have timetables. And they follow it mathematically. If the bus comes at 14. 56 and you are there, it means that you will get it and you don´t need to run anymore. Also the people that is waiting for the bus, if there is any minimum or slightly delay, even if is a delay of one minute, they will start complaining. This is one of the things that I have learnt here, to be punctual, and this is something positive since that, even more, it can be considered by most to don´t be punctual as a disrespect. But I have learnt the trick, you must run all the time. I am sure that you will have many histories as well about this, such as how infuriating it is missing the metro when you arrive and they close the door for just having missed some seconds.

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