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build our own 2000kg capacity carriage because the furniture store only delivers the 165kg stone table to the sidewalk
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see solar panel guys arrive 1pm to announce they're going for lunch now and will not work until later today
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see solar battery installers drill through the water pipe and start screaming for help
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buy onion but in Portugal you cannot weigh it yourself (normal since 1996) or have cashier auto-weigh it (normal since 2010), you have to grab a ticket, then wait 15 minutes, so that a person can weigh your onion to put a sticker on it
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tell local pool company who build our pool and jacuzzi and we pay subscription to maintain it that they are both cold and broken for weeks and the director keeps leaving the Whatsapp group after we ask him to help so we keep adding him back until he fixes it 😂
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hear that all construction workers of the construction company we have in our house apparently all quit 2 weeks ago, and the guy who owns the company is in hospital with his broken knee, and the woman of the company has a newborn baby and 4 other kids to take care of and they're now way passed contractual finish date so now they get €280 fine per day thanks to our lawyer Bruno
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try toilet paper imported from Netherlands and it doesn't give me chemical burns on my face like the Portuguese toilet paper does there must be something to this
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see construction workers nuke the Starlink internet cable once again
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see Portuguese marble stone guy cut the new kitchen counter top wrong because he measured it wrong and now he wants to buy us a different electric induction stove so that it fits his incorrect measurements (???) so he doesn't have to buy a new stone slab which I resolutely say no too
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see Portuguese contractor have to re-do the entire kitchen counter top because they didn't follow the measurements of the spec
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see construction workers kill my Starlink internet cable so now I don't have internet to work to pay for construction
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order flowers for gf from Portuguese flower shop and it's like the most passionless flowers I've ever seen
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see Argentinean butcher delivery arrive in regular DPD postal delivery van, not DPD Fresh (frozen van), which is a health risk, and find out butcher paid for DPD Fresh but of course they scammed him
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see construction workers break the air gap (2x plastic wall covers with zipper that blocks construction dust from going to rest of house) so we asked them to put a new one in without the hole, so instead they removed the old one then realized they didn't have a new one and now the entire house is full of dust (IQ 90)
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see WiFi not work in Airbnb we booked in street to avoid construction noise and work in silence but it's okay cause we have Global eSIM
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see 3rd electric blinds self-destruct because cleaner put the sunbed under them
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get put in 40°C jetway in Paris to plane by TAP Portugal just like they did in Italy before, which is a trick to say we boarded already so they don't have to pay fine for late departure
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