There is something to experience on a business trip, especially on the weekend when most of the others are free.

Hell, that's the passengers on the train.

Luckily no over-the-top bowling club, nowhere.

But a self-satisfied forty-year-old who negotiates with “Schatzi” in great detail on the phone, whether this time “Schatzi” will cook or he himself, whether pasta or rice will be served, there are still potatoes left over, and a pumpkin soup is never wrong.

In order to strengthen himself for cooking or dinner, the man scoops up an intensely smelling curry with his lips, his mask under his chin shows the first yellowish traces.

Well got it.

Ursula Kals

Editor in business, responsible for “Young People Write”.

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A few rows down the line, parents try to tomper their nosing children, shine through ignorance at “Stadt, Land, Fluss” and exuberantly praise their daughter, who is exercising on the seats, because she got “Aachen” in the city with an A, her hometown, towards which the ICE is heading.

Brilliant, the kid.

"Suuuuper you did that!" Papa delivers the land with Armenia, Mama steers the Ahr to it and the comment that "this beautiful river has made it notorious".

Do you come out as a spoilsport or even worse as a child hater if you ask for a lower decibel number?

Baby cries are already ringing through the car.

A little person has a stomachache or whatever.

Nagging is forbidden in order not to stress the parents even more.

A fellow traveler is courageous and kindly reminds the car pool that it is a quiet compartment and that he intends to work.

"Relax!

Today is Sunday, nobody has to work ”, instructs an old lady, who fails at the crossword puzzle“ partnership with three letters ”, the last an“ E ”, as she betrayed the woman sitting next to her.

The inspector hurrying by shrugs her shoulders.

“What do you want, is the volume in the room?

Should I pull people out? ”Yes - absolutely.

Tinkerbell, take over!

In the column Nine to Five, different authors write about curiosities from everyday life in the office and university.