had to go to a bank in southern france, years ago,due to leaving all travellers cheques in uk. after waiting in line the teller and her mates could not speak english, plus with my grasp of french PANIC a young german lass behind me heard all this and hey presto she could speak french and english, so she sorted out for me. also they had to wait for confirmation from u.k. of the numbers etc so was told come back in a couple of hours. PANIC again, the lass told me she was away somewhere by then, but not to worry she would give me a note to present on my return, after leaving the bank i waited for the lass and her mate to thank them, and offered to take them to breakfast/coffee whatever as a thank you, they refused point blank saying she was just glad to help,and that was it- never saw her again, but it certainly changed my outlook cos krauts were not my favourite people. that lass was a DIAMOND.
