I got stranded in Germany for days. It gave me faith in humanity.

I was a fool. The 10-minute delay became 20. Twenty minutes became an hour. Virtually no one in our gate area had Frankfurt as their final destination. Frankfurt is the busiest airport in Germany and a de facto hub for nearly all Western Europe air travel. I went to the gate agent in Berlin and asked for more information. Turned out that our flight hadn’t even LEFT its original airport yet to come get us. Our connection window closed slowly at first, and then all at once.

Drew Magary