Why Latvian men got no money?

Because they spend it at casinos and other “play houses”. There are more casinos in Riga than pubs, so you can imagine that this is the place a bloke goes after work. Besides Latvian men are naive and lazy, thus even after losing thousands of lats they still hope for the big jackpot. A saying “a hope dies the last” is very popular among Latvians. Addiction to gaming is the second worst habit for men after alcoholism, but it is a taboo to talk about it because of huge amounts of money being wasted.

Shoes exterminator

Shoes exterminator – what a fuck is that, you may ask. Well, let me tell you a story, my little friend. A story called “Shoe exterminator”.

Once upon a time a little girl named Katie from rich warm Western country came to Latvia in winter time. She liked the snow and was happy walking down the streets of Riga and catching snowflakes with her tongue. So one day, after a cold night, she decided to wear the nice boots she bought for £500 on Bond Street in London last Autumn. She had her expensive boots on for the first time and felt so happy walking down the streets on a nice snowy day. At the end of the day she got back to her hotel and was surprised to discover that her boots looked like she had them on for like 30 years or so. They had changed colour, had white marks and it was impossible to cover that with shoe creme either. Little girl Katie was so unhappy and she cried all night and sweared she will never go to Latvia again.

Morale: Don’t wear expensive boots/shoes if it’s cold and snowy in Riga, because since Soviet times to make pedestrian roads less slippery they (those fucking council cunts) are using salt. A lot of salt. Just like that, they put in on a ground. In tons. And it destroys your shoes within a few days.

Public transport price increases

It looks like lately we are writing only about public transport, but believe me, it really sucks. And unless you are a rich bastard who can afford to live in Old Center or a bored tourist who only wants to see “nice staff” within 50 meters of your hotel in Old Riga, you have to face it. So at the end of last year some dickheads decided “let’s charge now 10 santims more!” on tickets. When people started to ask questions – “why?”, they couldn’t give a proper answer. It turned out that they increased price just because everyone does. So now we have to pay 0.40 Ls for single journey, however in tram, where you have to buy tickets before boarding (in trolleybus and bus there are conductors that sell you a ticket once you get in), in case you want to buy a ticket from driver it will cost you 0.50 Ls. The idea that you have to pay little more would be fine, but it happened that on the first days of new year there were no tram tickets in shops at all so people were forced to buy tickets from driver and pay more. Nice, very clever way of cashing in some money!

PS: Just to let you know that bread and cheese now costs more than in Germany or even Great Britain. Simple cheese starts at 5 lats per kg, bread at 0.60 Ls. Yes, food is made of gold here.