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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>A couple of years ago, my family and I took the German express train from Frankfurt to Dusseldorf. Sort of. Eventually.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Frankfurt is a big terminus station, so all the tracks end in blocks and you can’t tell which direction they’ll go when they get back to the trunk. And, of course, all the signage and announcements are in German.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Dusseldorf train was to leave at, let’s say, 8:15 on Track 8. At 8:12, a train pulls in on Track 8. We get on, with all our luggage, make our way through a crowded train to find our reserved seats which didn’t have our names on the display above the seats but what the hell. Train leaves, and the family pulls out their phones to watch our progress on Google Maps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Except we’re not going north to Dusseldorf. We’re going south toward Munich. On an express.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>So I find a conductor, whose English is pretty not-bad. He understands the issue, pulls out his Android pad with schedules and figures out quickly how to reroute us and reissues the tickets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>But he asked, “why did you get on the wrong train?” I told him, we were trying to get on the northbound 8:15 and, given the reliability of European train, I thought it was running a few minutes early. He looked at me sternly and with a small smile said, “On the Deutsche Bahn, we are sometimes a little late. We are *<b>never</b>* early.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>d <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org> on behalf of Dennisf63 via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Reply-To: </b><dennisf63@wildblue.net>, <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:16 PM<br><b>To: </b><ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Cc: </b>Dennisf63 <dennisf63@wildblue.net><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ipg-smz] The train from hell?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Departed twenty seconds EARLY! For shame!<br><br>On 10/29/2019 03:11 PM, Andy Patrizio via Ipg-smz wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Meanwhile, in Japan…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Ipg-smz [<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org">mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Needle via Ipg-smz<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> David Needle<br><b>Subject:</b> [Ipg-smz] The train from hell?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>My wife just emailed me this from her office in Palo Alto: <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>very quiet here -- Caltrain horror stories from the SF commuters -- the train doors wouldn't open when they stopped in Palo Alto! same thing in Mountain View! people were freaking out. Finally got off the train in Santa Clara or something and took an uber to work -- $45 and 2.5 hours...</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Dennis Fowler<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>P. O. Box 70<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Otego, NY 13825<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:dennisf63@wildblue.net">dennisf63@wildblue.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>-- Ipg-smz mailing list Ipg-smz@netpress.org http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>