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German Politeness

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.

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