Yea, what a nice title, don't it?
Yes, it was yet another cold friday, 11th January 2008, when I woke up my bed very blurrly. I stood up, walked to the bathroom to have a warm morning shower. As I was almost there, I realised that I did not bring my soap. So, blurrly I went back to my room to take it. Again, I walked back to bathroom. I went in and bathed and as I was bathing, someone opened my door and I realised that I did not lock my bathroom compartment door. Luckily there was still a layer of semi-transparent separator to avoid my total exposure.
Then I went down to the dining hall for my breakfast. As I was taking my milk to my table, I accidentally poured it out. Not much came out from the glass cup, but it dirtied the floor. Sad.
Then we went up to wear our winter clothing and went to the nearest Tannenhof bus stop. We went up into the lovely no.15 bus. As we were on the way, I dipped my hand into my side pocket and realised that I forgot to stuff in my Fahrkarte, that is, my bus ticket. Sweat ran down from my forehead. S-W-E-A-T. I was a "Schwarzfahrer". A "Schwarzfahrer" is directly translated as black-passenger, meaning a passenger without bus ticket. I was sweat sweat sweat that time. The cold in my heart was much more freezing than the surrounding. IT WAS SO COLD INSIDE ME.
So the bus travelled, if not mistaken, exactly 11 minutes. Mind you, the public services in Deutschland is VERY on-time. You will miss the bus that you wanted to take if you late are even a single oh-my-God minute. Scary? So be punctual then.
And so we reached Bahnhof Wöllmatingen, the bus station that we wanted to take train to Radolfzell. And again I suffered a long train distance being a Schwarzfahrer. How fun, sweat. I reached at Carl-Duisberg Centrum safely. Hey, I prayed along the whole journey, ok?! =.= God answered prayer. You know what, the officer checked for the tickets in the train-compartment behind me. JUST BEHIND ME. My friends were astonished that I went through alive.
That's not all. After school we needed to go back with the train and bus. This time the train journey was even further - not just to Bahnhof Wöllmatingen, but to Haupbahnhof Konstanz. And again I was lucky to went through all these without problems. Eh, tell you what - once you got caught you need to pay double the Fahrkarte Preis, minimum 40 Euro. That is a VERY huge sum. Considering I have only 300 Euro, spending 40 Euro is like, 13.33% of my on-hand Euro vanish in the thin air. Sweat.
Anyway, it was a great experience and I would testify that God answers prayers. Just pray hard and you will know what you pray for will be done.
Vincent
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