as i write this i am FREAKING out!

as i write this i am FREAKING out. i just got on my overnight train to Paris with my reservation clutched in hand only to find an elderly gentleman sitting on my bed.
collectively our entire train car peruses our tickets and discovers that i am on the right train, and in the right car, but on the wrong day. this was the day and time i asked for-but not the day printed on my reservation. i am supposed to be on this train TOMORROW.
ummmmmmmmmmmmmm

so right now i am sitting in an empty car waiting for the conductor to come around to deliver my fate. i have visions of me begging to stay on the train. making up wild stories about how i need to get to Paris by tomorrow morning...or of me being kicked off in Hanover, or some other random German city at 4 in the morning.

now i am just waiting. waiting for the next stop where i will move all of my stuff out of the car, and just hover like a weirdo to see if there are any seats i can slither into.
waiting to talk to the conductor when he passes by. i already witnessed him yelling at someone else...he does not appear to be in the best of moods.

i will stand if i have to-and it will not be fun. this train left at 807 and get in at 924...TOMORROW morning. stay tuned.

5 minutes later :)

he was the nicest conductor that i have ever met.

he gave me the bed right next to the one i was hiding on. i admit i played the opera singer card. it was instinct-just kicked in.  it almost always works. hey if it gets me free drinks in bars then why can't it work on the train? usually i have to sing for the drinks-but he was too nice for that. he even kissed my hand goodbye! where am i?
oh yeah i am on my way to paris!!! see you in the morning!