Are Germans really as rigorous as they are said to be?

Experiences of international students about Germany not always being strict:

1. My German colleagues taught me to stay away from the red lights if I jaywalked on the road, so that I would not be fined by the police.

2. A German girl I knew was riding a bicycle with her arms folded over her chest one day. She was scolded by a passing police officer and fined five euros.

3. Do not check the room when checking out, throw away the key and leave. (Okay, this is called trust)

4. @陈浩’s German teacher often evaded fares when he was in Japan. When he was caught, he lied about being an American.

5. When I walked out of the subway station in Nuremberg, I couldn’t find the zebra crossing across the street in the direction I was walking. A German next to me (we just asked him the way) said: "You

can mess with it, it's Sunday, there's no one."

Sweat. So I found a lot of people running red lights in Germany, but they might not be Germans...

6. When we were going to Dresden Central Station, the train announced that Dresden Central Station had arrived. We got off the train and I looked up. I looked at the platform number and found that it was different from what was written on the timetable I printed out. I immediately became alert. I glanced at the station name and found that it was not the central station at all. I quickly jumped back on the train. The two Germans at the door shook their heads helplessly. Shake his head. How about your rigor?

>_< There wasn’t even an apology on the radio!

7. I had booked all the hotels before going to Germany, and they were all prepaid. It was evening when I arrived in Meissen, and I finally found the hotel only to find that a five-star hotel did not have a front desk, and close the door! Lights out! I didn’t live in it until the end! I was shaking in the cold wind for more than half an hour! The Germans passing by expressed shock and apologized to us for the substandard hospital quality in Germany... We paid in advance and arrived at the hotel within the check-in time... ...

8. The location of the hotel in Munich is relatively remote. There is only one bus to get there, otherwise we would have to walk for a long time. As a result, we did not wait for the bus marked on the timetable = = It would take a long time for the next train to come, so we dragged the suitcase to the destination...

9. The German police are not rigorous enough. We had a lot of things stolen in Cologne. The police first said that they could not understand the font used by Ma Zigeng when filling out the form (actually because her English was not up to standard), and then they wrote his last name as: Ma Ma, crying...

10, @ Ma Zigeng once made an experimental report with two Germans. One was busy and couldn't do it, and the other German worked with Ma Zigeng all night. As a result, the next day Ma Zigeng discovered that there was a problem with the experimental data processing method, so he quickly contacted the German by email. As a result, The German only replied to his email the night before handing in the experimental report

= =|||| Fortunately, Ma Zigeng had rewritten it before that...

11. When we were in Cologne, there was a stop called Mauritius church on the subway and light rail map. It turned out that the train didn’t stop there at all...

12. While waiting for the train in Meissen, we found that we were The train we were waiting for stopped not far away, and was towed away in the opposite direction... So our itinerary plan was completely messed up.

13. I stayed in a four-star hotel in Nuremberg for two nights, and the hotel’s wifi was basically never connected! The front desk also said that our wifi signal covers all rooms. Oh, the signal is indeed very strong, but it cannot be used....

Summary:

Actually, I have always felt that It is a very stupid thing to characterize a nation. For example, Germans are rigorous, French are romantic, Italians are passionate, and Spanish are unrestrained.

I’ve been to Germany three times just to see things, and then I have classmates and friends studying in Germany, and there are also German friends around me. In fact, I really don’t think Germans are so serious and serious. I don’t know why, but now in China there are always There are many extremely exaggerated articles boasting about Germany. I think the gap between many of them and the facts is quite large.

Germans may be more rigorous, but they are not at all like what the domestic media promotes. Especially young people in Germany, like young people in other countries, are playful and not very serious.

In addition, Deutsche Bahn DB is the king of delays in Europe. I have been to Germany three times and encountered various delays every time. Once, I was delayed and the next trip was not in time.

But there is no compensation. I really don’t understand how it is said in China that German cars are never late. There was also a German who took me through a red light in Berlin, their capital.