Just when I thought I was blending in...

Just when I thought I was fitting in...I have been taking the u-bahn (combo of surface trolley and subway) to the grocery store to fill our mini-bar sized fridge a few times a week, with my rolling bag and a few other reusable bags. Yesterday, at the stop where I get back on to go our place, I had to carry this cart down the steps since the escalator only goes up at this particular stop. As I picked up the cart, one hand on the top and one on the bottom kickstand-looking thing, one of the wheels came off and bounced down two flights of stairs before landing on it's round edge in the gutter and rolling down the third flight, picking up speed as it went. As I stood there absolutely cracking up and laughing out loud, the other wheel came off, just as the first one shot out of the mouth of the gutter and rolled across the station concourse ricochetting to a flying stop near a coffee shop. I couldn't make eye contact with anyone. I just kept walking down the stairs laughing and walked over to retrieve the wheels laying on their sides scattered about the station. I examined them like I knew what to look for, jammed them back on the axel looking thing and pushed a paperclip looking thing into what I thought was the locked position. I continued down the next flight of stairs to the platform where two, very amused, older women said something friendly to me in German. I asked in German if they spoke English and wound up making two new friends on the ride home. Now I know where to buy a German made wheely cart (I still don't know what these are called though) who's wheels hopefully won't fly off in front of so many stoic Germans. :) I don't think I quite fit in yet...