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Shutting Metal Apartment Doors at Night

This isn't nice but I'm going to go ahead and write it anyway. I did write about this before. I'd give anything if Koreans of all ages could shut their apartment doors quietly, not necessary really quietly, but normally, just making a little noise. The door to my current apartment and others I've had is made of metal. The one I have now is all gray metal, a little thick. When someone in my apartment building shuts their door it makes quite a noise. When someone near me does it it's impossible not to hear it. Sometimes there's a vibration in my apartment. Last night I woke up around 1am likely due to some noise outside my apartment. It could've been a door shutting loudly but I can't say. While I was awake I heard someone walk up the steps by my apartment to a higher floor. I could hear it but it wasn't really too loud. I heard them go up to the 2nd floor or maybe a little past and then didn't hear anything. About two minutes later though I hear...

Is it Just Me or Do Bus Drivers Just Drive Any Way They Want?

I can take a free shuttle but to my workplace even on weekends which is great. There are only a few bus drivers. On weekends just one of them drives one bus all day, weekdays all of them work. It's great to consider how much I saved on taxis or regular buses, though I do take taxis at times and so do other people due to not wanting to wait for the bus, being rushed or in some cases the bus not showing up. Two of the bus drivers don't drive very well. As I recall of those two one of them also doesn't always show up on time. Between periods driving the bus he has break times. Once I observed that he was always coming late when going in one direction, and then when arriving at the last point just turning and going the other way, then arriving at those stops on time. Basically there aren't many stops and each stop has a stop on both sides of the street for going either way. It takes him just ten minutes to go from one end to the other, and about twenty to from the beginni...