I almost got arrested!

So let's set the scene.

I'm on the train coming back from the airport as I had just got back from Sweden which was great by the way. At the airport, I only had 3 stamps instead of the required 6 on my stampticket. I decide to just get on anyway after stamping three because until 19 you can get by with three. I get to the transfer station and realize you can hardly see the stamp from the airport, so I just stamp it again. Hey! I'm in the clear to get to Holzkirchen...well, at least for a 19 year old...haha.

Well, we are literally one stop away from Holzkirchen when they check my ticket. No one EVER cares that I have 3 stamps...I think most of the ticket checkers realize that it is ridiculously expensive to travel by Sbahn train. Well this woman, this awful awful woman, decides she is on a powertrip...starts demanding for my ID when I tell her I'm 19.
'Uh...I don't have it...'
'But you are coming back from the airport!! Where is your passport??!' she yells.
'I left all my stuff in a locker!' - This of course is a lie...my passport, ID, everything is with me. I really don't want her to see my passport with my work visa stamped right in though because I've already pulled the 'I'm just visiting' card and also told her that, 'my friend that I am visiting told me to stamp it 3 times!' I pulled every trick to try and get away with it, but this wasn't gonna fly with this lady.

She calls the police.

THE POLICE.

AFTER I have told her I will just pay the goddamn 40€ fine so we can all move on with our lives.
But this woman is adamant. She wants me canned. For what reason I don't know...how many random American 'tourists' do you meet that can communicate with you in German? And not to toot my own horn, but I am an exceedingly polite, and nice person. Even to this woman. There was no reason to treat me as such. Plus this hag didn't speak a word of English so I don't know what she would have done otherwise...But it is, 'against the law not to have an ID on you all the time'...and so she gives me a paper to fill out with all the details...I fill out the paper (and stupidly) decide to lie about my birthdate further. And of course at this point I can't NOT produce my ID anymore, so I decide to miraculously find it. Wow! I also hid my passport in a book I got from Uppsala University...I still didn't want them to know I was living here...I figured they might have harsher punishments.

I think she spent about 5 minutes looking at my drivers liscence...you know it. The one where I am 16 and look like a chipmunk. It is, of course, expired. I have to renew it in person at the DMV when I get back, but as I turned 21 abroad I haven't done so yet. She freaks out about that...I calmly try to explain to her how I had turned 21 in Europe...(Sweden to be exact...Yes, I was pretending to have been living in Sweden).

I think she actually called the police again...she kept ducking away so I wouldn't hear her...So I would make it very clear I was listening to her phone conversation. Because I have a right to know what is going on, right? I could not believe this woman. Absolutely could not believe what a N°°° she was. And I wouldn't use that word lightly, but she is not giving a good name for her fellow Germans I tell you what.

We get off the train, and are waiting for the cops...She dramatically smokes two cigarettes like I had totally ruined her day. Like little well-meaning Sean was the worst, most difficult person she had ever met. I actually talked a little bit to her colleague. He was pretty nice, but clearly didn't say much around this woman because she was in charge. I had a feeling he wouldn't have given me the ticket if he had been with someone else.

Cops came...I think they thought she was a little ridiculous from what I caught. But they also questioned me. They were pretty nice, but told me what I did was 'scheiße'...shitty. Haha. I mean, it wasn't a big deal. I paid Nazi her fine, and walked off.

All in all, it's really quite funny. I don't think I'll lie ever again...I was kind of digging myself deeper and deeper and in a foreign language it was a little more difficult than usual! But whatever. Now I've got a great story, and I figured I would pay the S bahn 40€ at some point in my German life.

I'll send an update about my Sweden trip later. Maybe today...
Ciao ciao