2 things come to mind, both while in Germany (of course).
1. Old downtown part of Nuremburg, which is super-quaint with cobblestones, castle, only taxis and pedestrians, etc. Roommate and I are walking around and find a little italian resturaunt for dinner. Guy behind the bar looks like Tom Cruise in Born On The 4th Of July, with a beat-up vietnam-era jacket, mustache, and a headband, and is blaring AC/DC... the WHOLE TIME we're there, which is over an hour. Nothing but old-school AC/DC, at top volume. And he wasn't american.
2. Movie theater in Freiburg, far southwestern tip of Germany. It's cold and raining, so I decide to watch Titanic in german to kill time.... LOTS of time. I buy a ticket, and walk in to an empty theater. I pick a seat dead-center and wait. After 10 minutes, a couple in their late 60's or so walks in, and sits directly next to me. In an empty theater. I start getting wierded out, and look closer at my ticket, and it turns out that they give you a seat number, and that I had sat down in exactly the right seat, row and everything. Which makes some sense, because I was in the center, which is where they start selling from I guess. Anyway, I'm sitting uncomfortably close to these two older people when "Bobby Brown Goes Down" by Frank Zappa comes on the stereo. "She got my balls in a vice, but she left the d_ck / I think it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick" etc. My face was beet-red. I got up and moved one seat over and stifled the laughter as best I was able.
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