Paying to pay your rent

Here's an annoying thing about Sweden...

You have to pay your rent or any of your other bills at a bank.

Which may not seem like that big of a deal, except our landlord is located right across campus. We could walk across campus, pay our rent, and walk back in less than twenty minutes flat. Plus, it's right by the grocery store on campus. So it's not even out of our way.

The nearest bank, however, is in downtown Lulea. You can probably see now why this is annoying. We have to pay to take the bus downtown to pay our rent, even though our landlord is five times closer than the nearest bank. And then.. on top of paying to take the bus, you have to pay a fee to the bank for them to assist you in paying your bill! Even though there is no other way for you to pay it! It's frustrating and beyond annoying.

I suppose the only alternative would be to not pay the rent and lose our apartment. But since it's already dropping into the 40's at night... and it's not even September... I guess we'll just suck it up and pay them their damn $5 fee every month.

But it's still annoying.