Strange things that happened so far or how many times can you embarrass yourself in 7 days.

Ok, everybody had told me beware that there are a lot of changes going on and it will be different. So I tried to do my best to fit in but once in a while it just seems so different. I went to a bakery right before closing and the lady already had cleaned up a lot of things and I wanted a pastry which was put away already and I asked very polite: May I ask one of the pastries, please and she looks at me as I had just arrived from planet mars. So there she goes in the back and gets me the pastry hands it over or better kinda throws it over the counter and tells me that is 65 cents. No here you go and as I said thank you she looked at me like what you wanna make conversation? But I got my pastry.
Oh another good one: Everybody knows how much I used my debit card and that I never ever had any cash on my hands. European money is different. For everybody who hasn't seen any yet here a picture of our coins:

As you can see the 1 cent and 2 cents look a like a lot and so I went to buy something and she hands me the chance and I say oh you gave me too much and she looks at me like no and i started counting the 1 cents and said no its too much and so she started talking to me like I'm a preschooler buying milk for the first time and counted out the money for me till I was convinced I was getting the right amount of money. Another money store worth to tell. Who has been to ALDI? Remember you have to put in a quarter to get a cart and bring it back. Every cart in Germany needs one Euro to be used. So I went grocery shopping with my dad and he was like ok put the cart back and ok I was one of the people who would just push the cart the next to the car but hey the guy who puts the carts away needs work too and there I went putting the cart back push it back into the cart thing and walk away. An older lady behind me screams at me   ( ok I translate it  to the best) Little girl don't you wanna take your Euro out, your parents will be mad if you loose it. So I turned around and looked quite puzzled was she talking to me and yes she was. Sure embarrassing yourself once a day helps to build your character but I couldn't really let go of the whole thing and played the dumb little tourist who only speaks English. So the old lady gave me my Euro and tried to explain to me talking a mix of German and English that I was supposed to take my Euro home.

I'm a New Jersey girl and as everybody knows 

and yes I got my scooter back to life and I was super excited to ride again and my first visit to the gas station. I got there and stop the engine and started waiting for a couple of minutes and then I figured oh righ I have to pump myself and yes I had pumped gas in NY or PA but I normally used my debit card but German gas stations don't have a slot for credit cards figuring that I went inside waited in line and then the nice girl behind the counter asks me which number and I was like 5 dollar regular and she looks at me eh? So I said nicely to her that I wanted to prepay 5 dollars and she looks at me  ( Everybody tells me that I have an American accent and that I look so American) getting her school English together explaining to me I had to get gas first before I could pay. OK so I went back filled my tank and went back in line, waited patiently and I guess the girl behind the counter figured my German wasn't that good and she started to tell every customer the story about the dumb American wanted to pay for gas before getting it. I might have to find a new gas station now but I talked back to the girl after I paid in my nice Bavarian accent if you have to gossip she might want to wait till the customer is gone. She wasn't that nice afterwards.

Buying alcohol in Germany. I had to buy my mom a birthday present and she is into Italian cooking so I went to buy some Italian stuff and a bottle of wine. So there I stand there and the lady asked me to see my ID which I accept and I hand over my NJ license ( Some mysterious way German drivers license after I had found it cleaning up my room has gone missing and I haven't had the chance to look for it) and she looks at it. Calls her boss and he wanted to know if I would show him my passport speaking a hard to understand English. Here we go again. I told him in German that this is the only ID I have and my year of birth is 86 which makes me over 18 and the picture looked like me as well. What's next. He hands the thing back to me still talking English and saying to me he can't believe I'm over 18 but after I'm from a foreign country he would sell me the wine anyway.

One more story how I solved my hanger problem which was mentioned before: The parents of our neighbors own a dry cleaning company and they were up to visit and somehow he looked the keys inside his VW rabbit. But he had left the windows open about 2 inches. I didn't get the whole story but he tried a couple of household items to open the door no luck.  The keys were on the floor mat of the backseat and the driver and passenger window were opened as mentioned before. He used a hockey bat, an old hanger, gardening equipment to open the door but the car is so intelligent that after a certain point you can't open the doors by pushing the unlock button inside. Ok the whole thing went on for a good half an hour till I suggested to use a magnet to get the key which was immediately turned down because that would never work. I kept myself quite just watching and suggested again and I guess they wanted to shut me up and tried it and yes it worked. We go the keys back and the owner was so grateful that  I got about 100 factory hangers for free and now my closet is full but I still have some hangers left.