be very careful when writing in dates on your flexipass

So I go, ¨What happened?¨Remember, my Spanish is good for getting around, ordering meals, small chatting with people, not for understand a psycho. This woman goes, ¨He says he wants to give you a fine.¨I´m like, Ä fine? For what?¨ Because I wrote over the date, he was all pissed. He comes back, and I say, ¨Lo siento,¨and try to explain. He screams at me I need to read the back of my ticket and is screaming way too fast for me to understand. He goes off, and my couchette mate is like, ¨He wants to give you a fine.¨ I don´t understand why and he comes back in with his superior, ignores me begging and pleading and makes me write in the date, losing one day on my flexipass. I was so pissed.

Well, my trip can´t be perfect. I was talking with this woman at my hostel this morning, and also, Andrew and I have talked about this--the service culture in the US is a million times better than any other place, and people are rude and don´t care. If that happened in the US, I´d insist to see the supervisor and explain myself. The manager would remind me of the rules, and I´d be off.

Or as my new friend Mike said, ¨Train conductors in Europe are assholes.¨