#berlin life

[cosmogyros]

On the bus right now and an extremely drunk guy sat down right next to me, pulled out a mini-bottle of vodka, drank it all, then threw the empty bottle over my head out the window onto the street.

Me: "Mann, echt?! Wer macht sowas?"

Him, slurring and barely able to speak, looking me right in the eye: "Ich."

I switched seats but I had to laugh... I suppose I set him up for that one.

[elegantheartdaze]

Me, cuddling the hot water bottle: it's my emotional support bag of water.

My husband: that's not a nice thing to call me.

Me: you're my emotional support bag of *gas*.

Husband: *snort*

/scene

[cryotrash]

Getting my priorities straight

[imthegoodwitch]

this is happening and i'm ready to get my fucking ticket 😭❤️ i can't believe this!

[oliverpetrus]

Berlin 2019 ©  Oliver Petrus

[cosmogyros]

You know it's bad when even the subway signs say "Please look out for each other and stay hydrated."

And literally while I was making this post, an announcement came over the sound system: "Dear passengers, it is very hot outside..."

[cosmogyros]

I was out with some friends and one of them was talking shit about Berlin's most famous sex/kink club and saying how she'd heard bad things about people's boundaries not being respected there or something, and then I found out she'd tried to go there and hadn't even been let in (the doorpeople at this club are notoriously picky) and I was like... well, I've been there (wearing very revealing fetish gear, back when I presented fully as a woman) with another friend and her 70-year-old mom, and we all got in and had a great time. And I danced with a ton of gay guys and yes a couple of them gave me little touches without asking first, mostly in the context of complimenting my outfit or trying to move past me in a tight space or just expressing general giddy enthusiasm, and I totally didn't mind it and in fact rather liked it, and yes I did stumble upon some people having sex in dark corners of the club, but like? it's a sex club? that's kind of the point?

And then the same friend was talking about her upcoming party and expressed shock and horror that one of her invited guests had asked if he could bring cocaine to the party, and everyone else was like "what the FUCK, what's wrong with him?!?" and I was the only one who said "well I dunno, it's considerate of him to ask, isn't it? he could have brought it without asking first" and she was like "it's a HOUSE PARTY!" and I was like "...at the last house party I went to there was coke, and I had no problem with it, it just meant I had to wait a couple extra minutes for the bathroom because someone was in there doing lines" and everyone looked at me like "Well. Okay. Wow."

And I'm not sure what to conclude from this – currently hovering between three options:

I'm too edgy for my friends

My friends are not edgy enough for Berlin

I'm autistic and have a habit of simply taking things as they come because I've never had any idea what's considered "normal", so I just take my cues from the environment I'm in and roll with it instead of imposing my own expectations on the world around me

...Now that I've written it out, it's definitely option 3, isn't it?

[cosmogyros]

I'm on the train, standing as usual (I prefer it to sitting). Three young dudes were sitting in one of the four-seat arrangements - two seats facing another two seats.

A mom with three small children (all looking kind of messy - I suspect they may have been a homeless family) got on the train. There were no other unoccupied four-seat areas available, so she tried to fit herself and all her kids into a two-seat area. It was cramped, to say the least.

A minute later, the young guys got up and I saw them talking to the woman and gesturing to the area they'd been sitting in. At first she smiled and politely demurred, but they encouraged her to take it, so she gratefully moved over to those seats with her kids.

The guys who'd given up their seats were now standing, but an older man who was occupying one seat in a four-seat area then stood up and made inviting gestures. He himself moved to the two seats where the mom had been sitting at first, while the three young guys took the four-seat area that was now available.

Basically everybody was playing a polite and generous game of musical chairs on the Ringbahn today and it made me happy to see ❤️