The Man From Lubeck

In 2002, I won a contest from Jane Magazine where I was able to take a trip anywhere in the world with a price limit of $2,500.  I decided to create my own tour of Europe -- one of those "It's Tuesday, so we must be in Malmo Sweden" kind of trips.

As I was leaving Germany, the Danish customs official was there checking us into Denmark while we were still in Germany.

There was a kid about 18 years old who they asked to empty his pack.  The customs official held up a strip of condoms that was as tall as the kid, and then the official confiscated enough alcohol to allow the entire country of Denmark to party hard all weekend.

My friend and I ended up staying in an empty train station with this kid for over six hours. (More on that later.)  By the time we had waited that long on the next train to arrive, I wished customs would have allowed it through and we could have had ourselves a party.