TRA[life]VELS

Yesterday we took another field trip and went to Nurnberg which is about an hour away from Regensburg. Our plan was to hop on the bus, get to the train station, and then head strait to Nurnberg. Well, we were almost late for our bus, and we thought we were almost late for our train...so we ran a little. Turns out that the train was running 15 minutes late that morning. This is pretty unusual for Germany. Just within the past couple decades, scheduling has been getting a little more lax. There's an old saying that went something to the effect of being able to set your watch by the German trains. Anyway, with our extra time, some of the group decided to go grab some coffee while the rest of us went to wait on the train that had just pulled in. So we're sitting on the train and we notice that its about to take off [a little sooner than we thought]. Just as we're about to get nervous for our 4 classmates, we see them hurrying down the platform. At that moment Chris turns to me and goes, "wouldn't it be hilarious if the doors just slammed right now?" Well coincidentally, they did...with a vengeance. As soon as those doors slammed we all looked over to see if they had made it. One-two-three...oh no, where's Jeff? I looked out the window to see Jeff standing alone on the platform, pleading with the railway worker. When I saw the man vehemently wave his hands to signal "once they're closed, they're closed" I knew Jeff wouldn't be joining us that day. Luckily we weren't too far from the hostel. What made the whole thing even more comical was the fact that 5 minutes later, a man with a cart came rolling down the aisle shouting "coffee!...cappuccino!...tea!"