(07-15-2022, 08:19 AM)robkelk Wrote: Could you explain it to me, please?
Would they have piled into a limo where the driver is holding a sign with somebody else's name on it? Would they have sat down at a restaurant table that had a "reserved" sign on it when they didn't have a reservation? If no, then what makes this case different?
Like American trains, Dutch trains don't do reserved trains, except possibly the international trains, of which I'm not sure.
So having to comprehend 'wait, that is a thing?' and not doing so particularly gracefully I can understand.
Of course, after they grasped that was a thing their reaction went from 'wait, what' to 'we shall not be inconvenienced for we are Americans', so they kept digging the hole ever deeper. At least their eldest daughter appears to have understood the situation.