Adventures with Deutsche Bahn: Part I, Punctuality

It was nearing 1 o'clock. The train to Munich was leaving at 1:04. Alicia and I were waiting for Brandis, and starting to panic. The train arrived at 1:02. Two minutes to go. We got a call from Brandis a minute later, at 1:03. She was on another train which was currently pulling into the station. 1:04. The conductor told me to board. I stood stubbornly on the steps and shouted to Brandis into the phone to get her ass over to track 8!!! She made it at 1:06, to witness conductor trying to force me onto the train. Disaster avoided. Train delayed by two minutes, which it would easily regain going 300 kilometers per hour on the tracks to Frankfurt. The world is that much more exciting when you have to deal with German punctuality.