These two words just don't go together. Early this morning, after spending the night at the Cologne Furdance, I boarded a train from Cologne to Nuremberg, sat down on a non-reserved seat and soon fell asleep. In Frankfurt Airport, I got rudely awaken by some bloke shouting at me "EXCUSE ME?! I HAVE A RESERVATION!!" While he had one of those last-minute reservations indeed, there was plenty of space on the train (hell, the seat at the aisle would still have been free) and there was absolutely no need to wake me up like this and shoo me away. Especially not to yell as if we were in a barrack yard. But he has paid three Euros for the reservation and as a proper German he insists sitting exactly on this and only this seat, and not on one of the 60 other unoccupied ones.
Of course I wasn't able to fall asleep again for the rest of the trip.
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footpad.livejournal.com 16 years ago
Alternatively, when I had a reserved seat and sat down in the one next to it, and mentioned that I might have to turf the young man out later, I had to put up with five minutes of huffing and scowling when my seat was indeed claimed and I apologetically asked him to move.
Which made me feel considerably less apologetic.
Link | Replydoco.livejournal.com 16 years ago
Link | Replyblue-panther.livejournal.com 16 years ago
Ha, seems you encountered one of my Wagner-Enthusiasts :D
Alternatively, I encountered the same situation on my return trip too: A girl had taken my reserved seat, and offered to moove as I mentioned, I might need to reclaim it. I told her to stay, stating, as long as I have a seat at the table in order to draw, I would be fine. Luckily the other reserved seats were never claimed, so we could stick to our arrangement.
I don't get it anyway, I ordered my tickets well in advance and always reserve seats, but still get the omnious "ggfs. freigeben" on at least one seat per trip... The only time that didn't happen was when I booked 1st class to EF12 three months in advance.
Link | Replylupo42.livejournal.com 16 years ago
I think, that guy was just showing his family what a good father he was, insisting on the seats they had a right to sit on. And harshly driving away two sleeping people (must be bums, right?) who were apparently trying to steal their seats is a heroic act, isn't it? Wrong!
Link | ReplyOf course, when we boarded the train in Cologne over an hour before, the seats hadn't been reserved yet (not even "ggfs. freigeben"). I guess, they arrived by plane with a Lufthansa ticket for the train and hat a short-term reservation made.
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