Ticket Checker!

This post is actually about one of my new good found friends here....margy. Margy is a small blonde girl who has a deadly fear of ticket checkers. She once forgot to buy her bus ticket, and she saw the ticket checkers coming, and they asked for her ticket and she did not have one. She tried to explain that she could not speak german but they failed to acknowledge the fact. So she threw a 5 euro in their hands which is more than you actually pay for a ticket and ran off the bus. Now it seems that everytime margy goes onto a train, or bus, she gets checked. I however have the natural ability to repel ticket checkers. I have been on everything from trains to buses, and not once have I been checked, and not once have I bothered to buy a ticket either. Clint who is another exchange student goes to school with margy in meckenheim now and has the greatest laugh of randomly yelling ticket checker in the hall, and no matter where margy is she flips around and looks as if she is going to bolt off. I also have to admit to yelling ticket checker around her, and although funny to us, its not so funny to her.

I got margy to join one of my volleyball teams with me, and we had to take the train and bus to get there. The entire time she was saying how she was going to get checked, and I kept on assuring her that because she was with me she wouldent. We got on the train, and got off the train unchecked...... but right as margy went to get onto the bus there was a ticket checker. Now I am not quite sure what the ticket checker was doing but the next thing I see is that he shuts the bus doors, smashing poor little margy in between them. For a split second she was shut in between both doors, and the ticket checker opened them and yelled something at us and pointed to the bus halt stop. So we walked about two feet, to the bus halt, and than not a minute later the bus slowly pulls up to let us on. The ticket checker left... because I naturally repel them as I told you, but the entire way up to volleyball, I could not catch my breath because I was laughing so hard. Because here is margy with a deadly fear of ticket checkers, and than one slams her in between the bus doors. It was so funny for me because I was standing behind her so I got to see her face as she saw the ticket checker, and after he slammed her in the door. It was a priceless moment and I felt the need to tell everyone about it. I even told clint the next day at one of our Rotary meetings, and he found it about as funny as I did. Now we have a joke with margy, and everytime we yell ticket checker we also nug, or push her into something along the way. I think margy is over her fear because their is nothing else that a ticket checker can really do to her now that she has not already been through.... so next time one of you gets onto a bus or train watch out for the ticket checkers!!!