Friday was the World Cup opening match in Munich. 25% of the world's population watched the game! Meanwhile -> Germany has finally seemed to re-discover their national pride. Germans are very careful about not displaying too much national pride. So I was totally amazed when I drove in to town. There were people waving flags everywhere, many cars had flags on them (also from other countries). Not many people seemed to be working (although it was a friday). Basically it reminded me of game day back at college - except it was the WHOLE town of Munich (any maybe the rest of Germany, too based on what they were showing on the news).

On my way back to the office, while I was snapping pictures of cars with flags (while driving), the funniest thing happened. At a stop light, a friend of mine got out of the car in front of me (I thought the license plate looked familiar), and without saying a word, opened his trunk. He got out a flag to mount on my window and said: "Here, put this on your car!" and got back in his car. So I put it on my windows (I guess I can support Germany for one day).

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