Relatively sober on a long journey – Diepresse.com
With passengers, it’s like dice: you have to be lucky and patience.
Again a long journey made by train, sitting against the direction of travel again and almost everything was made. If you have a place at the window and interesting people in the compartment, it doesn’t matter to have missed every single connection train in Germany and will be arrived later than expected. If you don’t have it in a hurry, you can enjoy the way. If you want to be on time, you have to plan a buffer and understand the time gift as such. Delay must not make you nervous, just the standstill. It doesn’t help the most beautiful landscape when the train is.
The snack bread brings you around the mind
With the other passengers it is like dice: you can’t force happiness. You hear, see and smell: The conversations, the videos, the snack bread can get you around your mind or become an experience. So this time I was able to witness an encounter between Bavarian pensioners and young men on a rumbling. The women were hiking together in the Black Forest, the men who climbed in Ulm in a celebration mood.
One asked the beer bottle in their hands whether they should be able to sit down. « Only when we get something to drink, » said one of the women. And is the groom still be there? They had lost a buddy first, it said. « Now we’re still eight. And relatively sober. » The friend got out after the first stage, he expects offspring, as was exemplary. The hikers just laughed. « If men get the children, the women would go drink, » said one. A funny conversation started. About Frausein in the 1960s, about being a man in 2025, about humor and role models. And whether it is possible to lift the heavy bags on the shelf? « I just wanted to offer that, » said one, « I am very friendly. » « That, young man, you can’t say, just prove, » came as an answer. In Munich everyone got out with a smile.
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