I'm a simple emigrant and Deutsche Bahn can't surprise me

If all of Germany's speed has gone into the autobahns, then the Deutsche Bahn is responsible for all the spontaneity in the country. I'm sure it's precisely thanks to it that many people learned to adapt their plans quickly and without panicking. A few days ago I wanted to get to Cologne, but my train didn't arrive. Advance notice? Who needs it! Arriving at the station and seeing that the train had decided not to stop in Frankfurt—that's way cooler. In the end I headed to Düsseldorf so that the rest of the logistics wouldn't fall apart. But such surprises weren't always the norm. Back in 2019 I went home and, to save money, bought tickets from Berlin. At five in the morning I boarded a train in Frankfurt. That night I didn't sleep, and I fell asleep very quickly on the train. I woke up at some point and realized we're not moving. I checked the app, and the arrival time changed from 10:30 to 12:00. I'm in shock, wondering what's going on? I asked people, they said our engine had broken, no one knows anything and we can only wait. I quickly weighed my options and realized there was really nothing to do — we're standing in the middle of fields somewhere unknown, you can't even call a taxi. And only after about three hours did another train come for us. We transferred to another train car, sat in it for another half hour, and finally we left. And people clapped! Do you realize how unusual that whole situation was back then? I had a single ticket to Tyumen with a transfer in Moscow. For the flight to Moscow I almost certainly wouldn't make it. I started checking new tickets, but none of them connected with my second leg and they cost as much as 9 thousand rubles (back then it seemed expensive 😅). I started looking at what other airports were along the way. It turned out we were approaching Leipzig, and from there a plane to Moscow would depart very soon; you could still buy a ticket and it cost only 3600. I immediately bought the ticket, thinking I would deal with the rest as they came. I jumped off the train at the station, first time in Leipzig, quickly looked for how to get to the airport and realized that my metro was about to depart and it's only a 10-minute ride. I had no idea how to buy the right ticket for the subway, there was no time to figure it out. I jumped into a carriage and immediately hid with all my bags in the toilet. I ran to the Pobeda desk for check-in, of course there was no online check-in, because I had just bought the ticket 15 minutes ago. Meanwhile a court had forced them to cancel paid check-in at the airport, but starting tomorrow. I had to pay 25 euros, and the guy was like "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry" and gave me a seat with extra legroom. I said, it's all right, it's not the worst thing that's happened today; we laughed about it. Already on the plane, someone didn't show up for the flight and we waited until their baggage was taken back out. And I had exactly 35 minutes for my transfer in Moscow. I thought, there's no way I'll make it. I sprinted to the transit in Moscow; there everything was closed and there was no one. I shouted at the top of my lungs: "Could someone please check my documents?!" A woman runs out, turns on everything: lights, belts, computer. She says to me: "come on, run all your bags through the belt and run, don't take anything out of them, whatever." I run to passport control; there it's also closed, I shout again "could someone check my documents!" The same woman comes out, quickly lets me through. And I finally made it onto my plane to Tyumen and exhaled. When I got back to FRA, I got an apology letter from Deutsche Bahn and a box of handmade chocolates! Can you imagine? If they did that now — they'd go bankrupt just from the chocolates. 😅 #curiosities