So I thought it was about time that I wrote a post for this blog and instead of sharing lovely photos of food and telling you about the magnificent time that we are having, I'm going to share my rants... The first being Shizer people.
As you all know, I love people, and boy have we experienced an excellent cross section of douche bags in the past 3 weeks. All of the following stories are 100% true and have all been people that we have had to share a dorm with at some point.
Düsseldorf - so this was our first night in a dorm which was full with eight other people. I was hitting the prime of a cold that I had brought with me from Oz and was in desperate need of sleep after a day of exploring. Our bunk was right by the door which needed a code to be opened, so some noise was to be expected, but we managed to fall asleep quite quickly.
About half an hour later though, the main light is switched on and we are immediately awoken. Two girls (no need to mention their nationality) notice that we are asleep, whisper loudly to each other and then proceed to pack and unpack their ginormous rolling suitcases for the next hour and a half right next to our bed! In this dorm each bed has its own lamp so that the main light didn't need to be on - obviously this wasn't good enough. Also, they could have taken those suitcases and rolled them out into the empty hall to do whatever was so desperately important.
The absolute worst thing about all this was that each and every item within the suitcases was then inside it's own individual plastic bag - the constant sound of rustling for this amount of time was infuriating and enough for us to cringe every time we've heard that noise since.
Berlin - here we were in a six bed dorm with only one other bed being used, sweet! It was empty when we arrived but when we went back at half 5 he was asleep. Fair enough, people need naps or early nights. However, he was still in bed when we got home early the next morning, in there when we got up at about 9 and still in bed when we left for the day at 11! This is horribly annoying because having to whisper at 11am really shouldn't be a thing and it meant having to do everything in the dark. Then just to be different, the next night he didn't come back at all until 8am the next morning - weird!
Dresden - in a half empty 12 bed dorm, loved the two Aussies that came home while we were sleeping, switched on the massive main light (where again there were lamps for each bed as well as a corridor light as you came into the room that we had intentionally left on to prevent this exact thing happening!), said "oh, people are sleeping!" and then proceeded to have a full on loud conversation and left the light on... Boo!
Leipzig - this one's a bit different because we were the Shizer people! We had an alarm set and woke up before it went off so decided to go for a shower (which was in our dorm) and I swear that I turned off that alarm. Got out of the shower to hear the alarm going in the room, 10 mins after it was originally set so it had gone off twice while someone was trying to sleep... Bad bad people!
Bamberg - here we had three heroes in total. Only six beds so not really room for half to be douches! The first was asleep fully dressed in jeans etc late afternoon when we came to get a few things. Still asleep when we got home late that night, got up (loudly) after a night of snoring and farting at about 7am, and then came back to bed, still fully dressed an hour later. He had put his doona cover on his mattress, instead of the doona, and putting the slip on the pillow was all just too hard. He was still asleep fully dressed in the same clothes that night when we got back. Weirdo! Super glad when he left the next morning!
Then we had the Italian who didn't get home until about 7am the first morning, moaned disgustingly loudly in his brief hour of sleep and then left again after a loud phone call and applying about 5 different colognes! This guy spoke to himself, flopped loudly around in his thongs and generally existed louder than anyone I've heard before.
And last we had our friend on one of the top bunks who sniffed and snorted continuously whether he was asleep or not, as well as the usual snoring and general smell of grossness.
Just a trilogy of generally great guys - stoked to have gotten them all at once!
Rant over.
