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[jmowreader]

All the light rail is non-smoking.

Something I loved about Germany...our first sergeant needed to go to the hospital to get a hernia fixed, and the Army hospital couldn't take him because it was full (two of the five floors were closed for renovations) so he got sent to a German hospital. They fixed his hernia and admitted him for two weeks because they KNEW this guy would never stay away from work if they didn't. A few of us NCOs decided to visit him one day, and we caught him while they were serving dinner. On his tray was a beer. We had to ask...if the patient's medications or condition don't conflict with drinking a beer with your dinner, they bring you one.

Six months later, one of our number fell off an antenna and broke his hip. They put him in the Army hospital, and they wouldn't bring him a beer with dinner. Nor would they let us bring him any. Or transfer him to a German hospital so he could have beer. Our guy was not pleased.