Embarrassing Experiences in Germany

Every foreigner will have to confront all kinds of embarrassing situations while living in a country with totally different culture. I myself have suffered just much less from that as I can speak the language at least. So to my Chinese friends who don’t know one single German word at the very beginning (Normally they just start taking language lectures until their arrival here in Germany and some of them don’t speak English well enough neither), life could be really tough and funny as comedies. So here I’m going to share some of their interesting and embarrassing experiences which they ever told me and left me such a deep impression^_^
(1) As a girl friend of mine first came to Germany, she could not understand one single word out of language abilities. So no wonder that every time when she went shopping and paid the bill at the cash point, she could not figure out the money to pay as the cashier told her and didn’t know as well that in Germany we have electronic screen to show the customers the price. But she was afraid that other people in the queue laughed at her so she always hand over a large note for change and thus received lots of coins. One month later there’s a huge pile of coins at her place already.
(2) A Friend was once receiving guests at home and people smoked a lot and ran out of the cigarettes. So he described with hand movement to the little boy of his neighbour that he wanted two boxes of cigarettes from the automat . Ten minutes later, he got two condoms from the boy.
(3) A friend once shown me the kitchen paper (to dry hands and so on) to asked me: “why do the Germans need the toilet paper to be so huge?!”
(4) In China the bus driver will always give a stop at every station but here in Germany you need to press the button yourself. On the first day of one friend in Germany he cried out in a thundering way: “That’s my station, I want to get off please!”
(5) In the language lecture the professor always liked to ask what people did at the last weekend. Then there was one classmate shouting loudly: “Ich habe Liebe gemacht!” ( German for I’ve had sex!)