Jimmac told me that on one of his first visits to Germany from the Czech Republic, he was astounded at how smoothly everything worked. Coming out of the subway, he came upon an escalator that was not running. “Hah,” he thought to himself, “at least their escalators break too.” Then, as he stepped onto the escalator, he tripped a photoelectric sensor, and the escalator started. “Damn.
Nat Friedman’s Green moments in Germany
Source: nat.org
