Things I notice distinctly Swiss

I decided that from today, I will keep a list of things I only found in Switzerland - it might be unique, bizarre, or weird. Today, I post three things but may add on things from time to time.

1. The Swiss roundabouts. You see this in Swiss roads wheter it is a small town like Spreitenbach or a major city like Geneva. Switzerland does not have a lot of Stop signs on its intersections and they do not have the three-way or four-way rule we have in Canada. It would be interesting to find this in Canada as we have a lot of intersections with stop signs and traffic lights. It actually lessens the need for traffic lights as well as for stop signs. Would be interesting to see this one in my place for every intersection as Richmond West will have a lot of them.
2. Swiss doors have handles and not knobs. They are locked by using a specially-shaped old key-sized thing. This is actually advantageous if you hold things in both of your hands as you would still be able to open the door whereas with doorknobs you cannot.
3. Swiss plugs are way too different to North American plugs. They have the three rounded-pronged plugs. And to those coming from North America, please be aware that Swiss voltage is 240 V and you need to have a transformer to have your North American appliance work here. I have had my charger burned because of my ignorance and stupidy.
4. Swiss kezboards are confusing to use. If zou are accustomed to North American kezboards, then zou will find Swiss kezboards waz too weird.... Donèt worry, Swityerland didnèt turn me into a dzslexic, its just that Swiss kezboard makes me temporarilz so.
   
5. Swiss prices are not for the faint hearted. The picture speaks for itself.

6. Alemanic Switzerland has a lot of public drinking fountains. I find this to be really good as bottled water doesn't come cheap in Switzerland. I've seen fountains in both small and large cities such as Baden in canton Aargau and Zurich. The concept of a whole-year water fountain might not be applicable to all Canadian cities as they would surely freeze during winter time especially in Winnipeg where I am hearing that the temperatures are in the -50s neighbourhood.

7. Salads are charged per unit mass. I've experienced this myself at the ILO cafeteria. You need to weigh your salad as you pay the cashier. And take note, don't put the cheese with the salad as the French will surely have their eyebrows raised. I've learned that from experience....

I might update this post every now and then with my experiences in Switzerland.