Why are Argentines so impatient in cars and so SLOW in supermarkets

[RogerTotal]

The lights turns white and you don't immediately floor it and everybody is honking their horn. Sometimes they start honking before it turns. You do anything to cause an Argentine 1 second of delay while driving and they lose it.

Meanwhile at the supermarket, 10 people in line, 1 cashier, forget something? No problem, slowly walk to the back of the supermarket and grab it, we'll wait. Your mobile data isn't working to pay the bill? Take your time, we aren't going anywhere. Don't even have any items but want to chat to the 1 cashier about some possible upcoming specials - cool. 5 people 'working' eg standing around doing nothing while 1 cash register is open for 20 people "it's Argentina"

What would happen if we made shoppers put on little car costumes when they enter the supermarket

 

[Warm_breeze]

ahahahahahahaha, this is a great post and it is so true.

Argentinians are easily the most impatient and irritated drivers I have ever encountered on earth. They have an incredible sense of urgency

Unfortunately this same sense of urgency is not found in any other facet of their lives

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

The lights turns white and you don't immediately floor it and everybody is honking their horn. Sometimes they start honking before it turns. You do anything to cause an Argentine 1 second of delay while driving and they lose it.

Meanwhile at the supermarket, 10 people in line, 1 cashier, forget something? No problem, slowly walk to the back of the supermarket and grab it, we'll wait. Your mobile data isn't working to pay the bill? Take your time, we aren't going anywhere. Don't even have any items but want to chat to the 1 cashier about some possible upcoming specials - cool. 5 people 'working' eg standing around doing nothing while 1 cash register is open for 20 people "it's Argentina"

What would happen if we made shoppers put on little car costumes when they enter the supermarket

They will literally take their life in their hands to save 30 seconds on a journey.

 

[RichardAlem]

The porteños were going pretty fast this afternoon through the Juramento Subte turnstiles without paying.

 

[antipodean]

Why is Argentina constantly in crisis for over a century yet somehow always manages to keep the lights on?
Welcome to the great paradox... you just have to live it to understand it.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

I’m the exact opposite and have on more than one occasion left my shit in the supermarket and walked out in a huff.

 

[LuckyLuke]

The lights turns white and you don't immediately floor it and everybody is honking their horn. Sometimes they start honking before it turns. You do anything to cause an Argentine 1 second of delay while driving and they lose it.

Meanwhile at the supermarket, 10 people in line, 1 cashier, forget something? No problem, slowly walk to the back of the supermarket and grab it, we'll wait. Your mobile data isn't working to pay the bill? Take your time, we aren't going anywhere. Don't even have any items but want to chat to the 1 cashier about some possible upcoming specials - cool. 5 people 'working' eg standing around doing nothing while 1 cash register is open for 20 people "it's Argentina"

What would happen if we made shoppers put on little car costumes when they enter the supermarket

Hilarious post. I can't tell you how many times I've asked myself this same question...they really should do a social study on this.

My competing theories are that maybe the rude car drivers are not the ones standing in the lines... I don't know. Something like 92% of Americans have a car. So our American brain concludes all slow people = same rude drivers. But it's estimated only 43% of people in Argentina own a car. So maybe they're different folks.

Be glad you at least have straight roads that can handle fast speeds... Neuquen capital is full of "bardas", dirt hills basically. Half the city is on an incline. The city streets are full of drainage grooves criss-crossing the various roads. You would not believe the panic induced braking drivers will do when crossing these shallow dips because they think their shocks are going to explode on impact. Hard stop and go, hard stop and go, everyone is just waiting to be rear ended.

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

They probably have to drive like they do to make up for all the time wasted in other walks of life.

 

[francus211]

This is an all-time post. Oh, Argentina - never change

 

[Reversegate]

Argentinians are easily the most impatient and irritated drivers I have ever encountered on earth. They have an incredible sense of urgency

You've never been to NY then. Buenos Aires drivers are mogadon-fuelled sloths compared to drivers there.