car2go

There are those moments where it all seems to go wrong. It starts by missing the metro for example. That was the beginning of my circle of non-functioning. Then, after I had missed the S-Bahn by seconds, the other trains were cancelled for some reason. Later on the radio I heard the reason for this:  a  bomb was defused.
So I was standing there in the middle of nowhere. I know the station very well, that’s where I change trains everyday, there are sayings by Heinrich Heine on the tiles, but I never left the station. I had no idea how it would look on the outside. Before leaving the safe area, I took out my phone to see where I was on the GPS, but the phone didn’t work. It wasn’t even the battery, which would have been the classic scenario, no, it just wouldn’t load the map. After several tries I gave up . I went out, all by myself, no assistance, like in the old days. Suddenly I stood on a big bridge, completely deserted. For the first time in Berlin I was a little frightened. I’m really not somebody anxious.

I chose a direction and walked. Faster. I held my bag a little tighter. I tried the GPS again, nothing. I didn’t know where to go.

I took a street haphazardly. And there it was. Small, white, beautiful. Car2go, the little car-sharing SMART. At that moment it meant home, security, I was safe.
I love car-sharing.