I felt like a linguistic moron. Wouldn't you?

Citizens of the world, now I know what you feel like when you come to Russia. I felt exactly like that in Budapest. I felt like a linguistic moron. Wouldn't you? Anything that is written in Hungarian is non-intelligent, although it's written in Latin.

Subway/Metro is a mystery. You have to figure out how many stations you travel, buy a ticket, thrust it into an obscure slit in an obscure column at the entrance to a subway station, you get your ticket punched, and go inside. There are no mechanical or any other barriers. So, if you choose not to pay, it's all right unless your consciousness says otherwise.

If you change your mind and decide you want to get off at another station because you just met an old school friend and he/she talked you into having a cup of tea in his/her house, you'll either feel like a thief, or a ticket inspector will fine you. And it's not fine, if you ask me. In America, you can buy the cheapest ticket, travel to whichever subway station you choose and, when you finally decide to get off the train, the barriers will either let you out, or you'll have to pay the difference to the nearby machine and get out without any sense of guilt. In Budapest, when I used public transport I felt guilty until proven innocent when I got off.