Second look (53)

[gerbie]

In Austria the sunday is still the day of rest. So nearly all shops are closed. But the sunday paper needs to be sold anyway. So they hang them on trees, traffic signs and lamp posts. Get a paper and pay your 50 cents. When I worked there it was 8 or 9 shillings I remember. So in a decade the paper hasn't become more expensive. I can imagine a lot of places on earth where one couldn't sell a paper like this. It would be stolen. And the money as well. Not in Austria. Luckily.

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[caniche.livejournal.com]

Dear god, the amount of snow there is obscene.

And I thought we had it bad with 20cm LOL

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

If you go all the way out through that snow, you deserve a free newspaper I'd say. Yet still everybody pays...

[caniche.livejournal.com]

You know... I'd put a hot-cocoa stand next to that newspaper machine. Imagine how much you'd earn! :D

(and yes, an automatic one, I am not standing there pouring cocoa to bypassers thankyouverymuch ;) )

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

It is not really a machine that sells newspapers. Look at it carefully. It is more like a plastic bag with a little box for coins above it.

[caniche.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... Does that mean I could put a small stove warming up cocoa with milk, and some plastic glasses, and have a small box for people to deposit the money when they take one?

That country is awesome ;D

All joking aside, it is indeed quite cool that such a system works without people taking advantage of it.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Theoretically you could try to put that stove there. It would only work one day a week though. But in plenty of places over there, so there could be a chain there for you.

Ceci n'est pas un journal gratuit

[tamaraland.livejournal.com]

The news boxes here are also open, with a slot for you to put your money. Amazingly, people do pay for their paper, and the boxes aren't robbed. They do have a sticker on the cover for the box saying that it isn't a free paper, but it was a big shock to this New Yorker that that alone is an effective deterrent.

Re: Ceci n'est pas un journal gratuit

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Sometimes life in the slow lane isn't too bad.