You're waiting for the subway at Alexanderplatz. It's rush hour. You're exhausted. All you want to do is get home and eat something. But there's a bunch of shit to mentally process on the way back to your WG. Here's what you're likely to see out of the corner of your eye while you're trying to read a magazine:
1. Lots of frowns.
2. Ads asking if you're depressed below TVs silently displaying depressing news.
2. Germans who are wearing very practical winter clothing by Jack Wolfskin.
4. Someone who is looking around for high-fives after rushing into the subway doors at the last minute.
5. Someone who smells like he took a shower in fermented cheese.
6. At least five older women who are dressed elegantly and staring lackadaisically at nothing in particular.
7. A few kids who are trying to act tough and getting disappointed that no one is recognizing their toughness.
8. Someone who really doesn't like that your shoes accidentally touched theirs for a millisecond.
9. A dude wearing a tracksuit and his bulldog.
10. At least one couple who are ferociously making out.
11. A hipster dressed like a homeless person who is rejecting money from an actual homeless person.
12. An American dude who is talking dramatically in English on his cell phone and trying, fruitlessly, not to be a bother. (THAT'S ME)
3 comments:
Exactly, but who and when does anybody ever "rush" during any hour in Berlin?
I used to work full-time across town and deal with rush hour every morning. It can get surprisingly hectic, especially at Alexanderplatz. So glad I don't have to do that anymore.
Don't forget the Alexanderplatz punks, where at least one person in each group is the anti-fascist ambassador for his peeps by wearing a t-shirt with a stick figure throwing a swastika into a trashcan.
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