"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

-Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Thank you Deutsche Bahn for making me chuckle...

The German Rail high speed trains, or ICEs (Inter City Express) as they're locally known, are rather impressive, and go rather fast... and in every 2nd class carriage they have changing LCD displays, in English & Deutsch, to inform passengers of important things such as the current speed (especially when it hits 300kms/hr), the date and time, up coming stations, and helpful reminders to not forget bags and umbrellas, etc...

but last week, on arriving at the Frankfurt Airport station (on the Munich to Dortmund train), the display said:

"We are pleased to take leave of our guests."





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well even with its interesting manners, it's better than what we poor Sydney folk have.....

Laura said...

Nice. :-) Read your other posts also, you are brave for making it to Oz! i fly 11 hours to California, but your journey must be longer. take care! Laura from baroquebabies.com come over and say hello when you have a chance!

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