2012-11-02

Things I do not understand...

1. Everybody I have ever met agrees that Belgium needs one uniform nationwide voting ballot during national elections, allowing all Belgians to vote for all political parties, without any kind of regional or cultural restrictions. So why don't we have this yet ?

2. Out of six train rides I took this week, six arrived late. Worst was about 30 minutes late, second worst about 12 minutes late. Why doesn't the train company create a real train schedule ? Why is management not fired for this ?

3. Most working people have to get to work about 240 days per year. There are 365 days in a year and yet the majority of workers insist on commuting on the exact same time and the exact same days (Monday to Friday), thus creating huge traffic jams. Why not ditch this legacy Middle Aged system of weekdays land use all 365 days of the year in a sensible way ?

4. Why the hell are we changing the time twice a year ? It has been proven multiple times that "daylight savings" is wasting energy!

2 comments:

Philip Paeps said...

We had unified elections until some flag-waving separatists started making loud noises...

I feel trains in Belgium would run a lot more effectively if at least 50% of the staff were fired. Unfortunately, that's not a popular move.

Work from home. Much better for your blood pressure!

Anonymous said...

2) because the train company exists to keep people from being unemployed. as a side effect they also run trains and maybe you're allowed to use them.