I once "escaped" Frankfurt *by accident*; I actually entered Germany without meaning to there was an unlabelled fork in the road and a tiny border checkpoint in the corridor which I didn't correctly recognize.
Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo
8 Oct 2019
At this point, pretty sure that Frankfurt airport is the world’s largest escape room
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I thought it was some random airport checkpoint (it was really small, fitting in a corridor) and gave them my passport which they stamped. Five minutes later, I'm outside.
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I go back through security and they're like "you entered Germany just a couple hours ago (it was early morning) wtf were you here for" and I made my best sheepish face and said "oh it was an accident"
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Manish @ManishEarth
21 Sep 2018
Replying to @ManishEarth
It took me a while to figure out this signage, from my POV I thought it was contradicting itself but it turns out it just wants me to go through the shop
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Manish @ManishEarth
4 Feb 2019
Replying to @ManishEarth
My gate is in the A14-49 range which has *terrible* signage
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Replying to @ManishEarth
My favorite FRA incident was when the guy at security forbade me from taking items out of my bag that I knew would need to be X-Rayed separately, only to have the X-Ray guy fail the bag and run it through again with those items separated.

Oct 8, 2019 · 9:12 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
i've had a similar one airport security gets really condescending about this
Manish @ManishEarth
21 Sep 2018
More Frankfurt woes: We won't let you remove your belt at security when you start doing it, but we WILL do a pretty invasive hand search when it shows up in the scanner.
Replying to @davidbaron @ManishEarth
(I think that one even beats the rats running under the chairs against the wall in the gate areas.)