there's a comma, period.

I think it's funny that with expressions of numbers in Spain (and probably most of Europe and who knows where else), instead of using a decimal point, they use a comma, and instead of a comma, they use a period. 

for instance: the year is 2.008. 

A shirt may cost 39,99 euros. 

There are 3.894 people in this city. No, not three and 894 thousandths of a person. But rather three thousand eight hundred ninety four. 

In addition, while in Spain they (try to) drive on the right side of the road, many pedestrians pass each other by walking to the left. Actually, in Spain, people don't really move. If you don't want to get rammed in the shoulder or knocked out by that old lady's shopping wheeler-cart, go wherever there's room--left, right, jumping over her...whatever gets you out alive.