Disorderly Germans Playing Chicken on the Einbahnstrasse
Germans are world famous for their über-refined skill at organizing. But in the town of Kusel, not everything is always in "Ordnung."
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Everything is not in Ordnung in Kusel.
Foto: Harold HiteGermans are notorious the world over for their, shall we say, obsessively compulsive attention to organization. In Frankfurt, there's even a support group for messy people: Anonyme Unordentliche (Slobs Anonymous).
That's not to say that chaos isn't to be found in Germany -- it's just rarer than one might expect. Harold Hite sent in this snapshot from Kusel, Germany, where two one-way streets appear to be running into each other. Which reminds us, when we first arrived in Germany, we found ourselves asking "Why are so many streets here called 'Einbahnstraße'?"