🇩🇪 5 NORMAL EVERYDAY GERMAN HABITS I HAVE NOT PICKED UP 🇳🇿

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[Razer]

Ignoring people when you‘re walking past them is very common in cities in my experience. In rural areas you‘re almost obliged to greet people, because otherwise your parents/grandparents are being informed of your bad manners. In Germany people in small villages most likely know which family you belong to🙈

[lyndaf.]

Not being critical but yet again Antoinette the things you mention are not just typical German but European. In England we always wear slippers in the house, we would never great everyone we meet on the street in a town but, as in Germany, great people in rural areas or when out walking in the woods etc. The cooked meal time varies from family to family depending on their situation and I find that is the same here in Germany. Here in North Germany nearly every one I know drinks still water ( back in the 80s this was virtually unknown but not now) and the Kindergarten I work in offers tap water to the children as well as bottled sparkling water and the majority take tap water. I do however agree with you on the socks in sandals, I never saw that before moving here!!

[dawnrussell]

Brits wear slippers too. Germany is a cold country in the winter like the UK so we like to have warm feet!

[Nostrum]

The Hausschuhe thing is typical not just in Germany, but also in Eastern European countries. It makes a lot of sense in the cold winters. And so when you wear them all winter, you get used to it, and you continue wearing them all year.

[saskiaschnoodlebaboodle]

Fun fact: people are friendlier in the forest. While it is normal to ignore strangers in town, in my experience, strangers do say hello when you pass them while on a hike or in the forest. I am not sure why...

[keltoi]

The point of wearing socks not only in sandals but in every kind of shoes is - first of all its much more hygienic. But the main reason for me is that my feet get sweaty and slippery in Sandals without socks and i absolutely hate that feeling - and sometimes i even get blisters on my feet when i dont wear socks. So for me there is absolutely no point in NOT wearing socks in sandals. ;)

[sushi]

The underlying issue with ignoring people is that, especially in more urbanized areas people that approach you are automatically associated with someone who wants to sell you something or someone asking for money. Unfortunately this happens quite often so you just learn to ignore people as a form of self-defense

[sarahbowman]

House shoes actually make complete sense to me after my (german) city dwelling friend explained the whole logical thing of that, not only does it protect your feet from injury but also keeps the "outside" dirt from being trampled around your whole home. Now it has become a habit for me (along with airing my flat, turning back the duvet, not being loud on Sundays etc and everyone assumes it means I'm a german who speaks good english which I find quite amusing.

[Alexander-dteq]

in german village its more like the Kiwi way. you will always be greeted back and mostly even be greeted with a hello and a smile. Great you keep up that tradition!

[charlottedavey]

My girlfriend says on socks with sandles: "you have the warmth and comfort of inclosed shoes, but the freeness of sandals" - but I still don't understand how you feel free with socks on 😅

[Kate-supu]

I would say that saying hello on the streets is something where you have to differentiate between countryside and city. I grew up on the countryside and I was taught to say hello whenever I pass a person. It always distresses me when someone doesn't say hello :D but in the cities it's not so common to do that. It's way too anonymous and crowded there

[petersmiling]

Socks prevent blisters on the feet when wearing shoes - or sandals.

[kathom]

German tap water has in many regions a high level of calcium.
As drinkable as it may be, it just doesn't taste very refreshing. Not pure in a glass, not in coffee, not in tea. It's what we call "hard water". And the difference to "soft water" is distinct. Sparkling water on the other hand usually has this light sweetness to it which I expect from "sweetwater", which is "fresh water" in English.

[anjar.]

The kindergarten my son is going to don't use sparkling water - they use tab water. My son always drinks tab water (or half tab water, half juice) at home - he literally hates sparkling water. I like to drink tab water or 'Stilles Wasser' as well. But sometimes I also like to drink little sparkling water (Glashäger sells one under the name 'sanft' - gently/smoothly).

As a german, I don't like these unfriendly, not greeting behavior too. We live in a small city in the northeastern part of Germany, so it is a more rural area here. There are a few moms at my son's kindergarten, who can't get their mouth open for a little reply. But luckily the most of the parents are responding.
Lovely channel btw :-)

[aniinnrchoque]

Socks and sandals:
Warmer feet
No sweating directly on the sandals
Most importantly - extra cushion to prevent blisters

[petergrabner]

As a German I also don't do/like the first half of things but I can explain what the reason for the last two things is.

I like wearing socks and sandels for the same reason I like wearing houseshoes. In Germany is often cold the most times, so your feet are a bit warmer, also both prevent yor feet/socks from dirt.

I also don't understand why Germans being judged for that. Not everybody is a fashion person and nobody should be.

[heavymetaleinhorn]

Me and my parents always have a warm meal for dinner as my mother cooks them and she returns very late from work, so at lunchtime everyone prepares an own meal for himself :)

[Mia-ulmb]

I’m german and i actually dislike sparkling water. I remember when I was younger and we were in a restaurant I ordered “Wasser” to drink and got sparkling water, although i didn’t say explicitly sparkling water. So i learned from that and now i always say I want “Stilles Wasser” 😀
And I also hate the habit of wearing socks in sandals! Never understood why people are doing it

[QuikkNic]

Kid who got still water:
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[DollyJohanne]

I am Norwegian and I do smile and say hello, in my more rural neighborhood I even waves a hi with my crutches 🤣 I do the same if I see people I know in town, the wave with the crutches that be, but I still give a smile and a hi to very many in town too. I also shout out “thanks for the trip” to the bus driver when going of back, even in a very full bus. This is NOT normal, but I think it is nice to say thank you, and the bus drivers have a hard work, so at least I could give them some appreciation.

I had an old man thanking me in my teens for talking with him on the library. For me it was nothing special, I try to be polite and I really love older people, I have always done, and he was a very nice man. That thank you change me. It is 20+ years since then, but if I meet someone on my hiking that wants to talk and I can cash a later bus (they mostly go’s every half hour in the weekend, sometimes more frequently, always more often in the weekdays, so it is real not an issue) I do that. I know how good it can feel that someone gives a hi or a little talk. I have worked in nursing home for elderly for 13 years, so I really love the elderly, even though I don’t work now. Many I meet on my trips are elderly, since I often goes on weekdays, or early in the weekends.

So many local waves at me, even in the cars, so I just waves back, even though I don’t always know who it is 😂😂
You get a little local fame if you use crutches for 4 years, and goes on long walks and hikes every day, in every kind of weather.

I think it is nice of you, and sweet that your boy is caching up 😍

We drink tap water here in Norway, some use house shoes, mostly in the winter (we never wear our outside shoes inside), some wear socks in there sandals, but that is mostly seen as a joke, and we have 4 meals in Norway: breakfast: bread, porridge or yoghurt, lunch: mostly bread at work/school (there are some changes going on here, but most kids need to have lunch with them at school, and that is a cold one), dinner is often at 4-5pm, and is hot, and we have evening meal, that is more like breakfast, bread or maybe some leftovers, some easy.

Thank you for sharing! Love from Johanne, Norway