Quote Originally Posted by Duman View Post
Years ago I was in Germany, the part formerly controlled by the Soviets. I was travelling with another engineer who spoke German, because in that area the primary languages are Russian and German with English being a distant third.

Travelling on a train to another town, I fell asleep only to be woken by a attendant in uniform loudly demanding, "Der TICKET! Der TICKET!". Only in German, which I didn't understand.

Give those guys a uniform, and they think the world is theirs.
Ok. I gotta ask.... you couldn’t infer what they wanted when the phrase in German was “Der ticket”? It has ticket right there, and being asked to see your ticket on a train is an expected scenario. It seems ticket is the same in both languages and should have been easy to figure out.