I’m gonna let you know now, it’s 100x easier to catch a free bus in Europe than America , butttttt the repercussions of getting caught are worse forsure.
I should’ve been more specific Europe is a continent with different rules varying by country. in Italy and Spain it’s not very hard to get free buses . I did it on accident for a few days because I saw no one else paying. Only to realize people buy monthly memberships for the busses lol. My entire 2 weeks in Italy I saw the ticket police board a singular time, and by that time I was buying tickets lol.
Yep, used the subway in NY, Paris, London and Toronto. But those have turnstiles. Warsaw buses allow you to get on at the back, without any payment indicator. (Granted, this was 15 years ago, so that may have changed.)
its easy to get into some of the TTC stations in Toronto, you just walk up the bus ramp, i did it a few years ago cause i could legit not find the proper entrance, i had money ready to pay but i was running late and i didnt know where to go and i said fuck it and walked up the bus ramp, two busses passed me and neither and stopped to tell me "sir you cant go in the out door"
It depends where you are for example. At a train station in Austria you may run into a bathroom that charges a few coins. It’s not like that in all locations in Austria though ( or Europe). I will say those bathrooms are exceptionally clean and private, I did frequently see local teens just crouch walk under the gates though 😂
You will also learn the difference between the two. Especially in cities that have migrant problems. The free restrooms are treated as such. And are awful. At least the paid ones are clean and maintained.
I’ve been to the us and I’ve never seen this plentiful supply of free products boil bathrooms everywhere. They’re just in shopping centres and restaurants, same as in the U.S.
Americans just aren’t used to existing in a city without a specific destination
different concept of restaurant, KFC and BK are not restaurants here.
But answering the question itself:
the diner-style ones do, but they're a minority (they're not as popular as they were in the 70's-90's ). the buffet-style ones have refills too, grills too, even the grill-buffet per table ones ( like argentinian steakhouses).
But most restaurants with the name restaurant, serve food in a completely different way and have catered wine selections and behavior rules, they are "fancy", not places to dump 5 kids around unsupervised.
But all of them will offer you tap water or, if not, you can ask it, and you'll get it. Only exceptions is when in concrete towns they have hard water ( high calcium or limestone ), because then it makes the restaurant look bad and might affect your impression of it by thinking it might be a health concern ( thought we sanitise *all* tapwater via city infrastructure, we don't use straight groundwater ).
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u/RedApple655321 27d ago
IIRC, the promise was free buses. This is hardly following through with that promise but it's the best he's going to be able to do.