Getting caught trying to ride a bus without paying in Germany. I got caught by the cops and taken to the police station. This was the night before I was flying home. I had the money to pay, but I had given it away to my busker partner because I knew I wouldn’t need the change, as I was leaving. But I forgot I had no bus money.
So I got on the bus, and at the next stop, there were the inspectors. I tried to get off, but they wouldn’t let me go.
I didn’t have my passport or anything with me, and I didn’t understand what they were saying. I told them I was camping in the woods outside of town. My passport was in my tent. Really, I was staying with my parents, and I was too ashamed to let them find out.
In the end, they just left me sitting in the police station lobby. No one was around. I just walked out, and ran a few blocks, and then walked back to my parents apartment. They never knew. I got out of the country the next day, and haven’t been back since. It wasn’t so much that I got away with the bus ride, since I didn’t. I got away without my parents ever finding out.