wake up 8am seeing construction workers in a massive fight and come down to mediate and chill everyone down #onlyinportugal

go IKEA to return something, we get ticket C228, it says C228 counter 6 on the screen, a Portuguese woman moves in front of us to counter 6, I say "no I think it's our turn we're C228" she says "no it's definitely me" and repeatedly insists but she has the wrong number ticket. The Portuguese counter woman says "it's not your turn". Then chaos ensues in both of the Portuguese minds as the counter woman has to follow the rules to Kafkaesque rigor (a Salazarian trait) while the Portuguese customer expects to be helped, skipping the queue, while it's not her turn and I disengage and find another counter to return my IKEA stuff #onlyinportugal

report dangerously massive hole in road to municipality #onlyinportugal

see gf order "love strawberries" and they arrive like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌 #onlyinportugal

make appointment 3 days ago for new solar company to come check our electric system and roof to install solar panels and batteries, for today Friday 11:30am, but there is of course nobody here and nobody picks up the phone anymore #onlyinportugal

prepare space for the Portuguese electricians to come to finish their job they left finished tor 60% and they announced they would come today at noon but of course it's today and there's no electricians nor anyone replying or telling us, aka Ó Classico #onlyinportugal

see local farm box subscription leak everyone's user data today #onlyinportugal

see Portuguese gardeners do their work #onlyinportugal

go sleep late last night because we had to remove all the stuff from the built-in house closets, because today at 8am the closet construction guys came to remove the current closets so that we can start doing construction there, this was planned months in advance and Monday he confirmed he would come today Wednesday 8am, of course he could not come later than 8am, all good. Today we wake up and there is no closet guy, no message from him, he don't pick up the phone, completely ghosted us #onlyinportugal

get €6,000 Flight Sim computer delivered assembled from Portuguese company but the entire CPU cooler is only half attached 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal

see guy who came to install solar on roof see we have the typical Portuguese solar water heater, so he then told us we are crazy because we have our regular electric boiler on, saying "you only need to use your electric boiler in the winter, in the summer you should only use the solar water heater" and then he switched off our boiler, then this morning we had had luke warm to cold water in shower, it's so interesting their standards of living are so much lower and every single thing here is about saving money and not life quality, opposite to Kardashev Scale #onlyinportugal

discover the LAN cables in my 2 year old new home are 100mbps and 25 years old and can't handle Gigabit #onlyinportugal

see Portuguese kitchen company fuck up measurements of drawer by 0.5cm so the internationally standard tray doesn't fit 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal

investigate hiring Spanish builders to come build stuff for us because Portuguese never show up #onlyinportugal

fuck around with Steam for hours because nothing will download then try changing the download server from Portugal to Luxembourg and suddenly everything works, literally the Steam downloader server for Portugal of course doesn't work you can't make this up #onlyinportugal

analyze Nuno Palma recommendation from @nosilverv and transcribe podcast he's on and ask ChatGPT to summarize #onlyinportugal

call Rimowa Lisbon store because the handle of suitcase is broken so I ask can we come by now to drop it off for repair and he say "no because we are closing soon" it's 4pm so I ask what time you close he says "8 pm" 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal

post idea to fix Portugal by lowering corporate tax rate from 31.5% to 15-20% #onlyinportugal

stand in the TAP Portugal jet bridge with premium boarding for 30+ minutes without AC in intense heat so that they "boarded on time" but actually the plane is late but they record the delay as boarding time, meanwhile everyone here is melting in heat #onlyinportugal

see Taxpayers Association Portugal launch a bug board for Portugal inspired by OnlyInPortugal.com #onlyinportugal observador.pt/2025/06/09/asso…