If a single dollar doesn’t move the needle for you, that’s great! It reminded me of a book I read where the whole premise revolves around “how much does a single dollar more per day change your life?”

They built an interesting site: dollar street (https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street).

If all the world lived on a single street, with low income left and high income right - where are you?

“Grumbern” is the same in parts of Frankonia.

Since they shut out Linux players last week. Taking away access to things someone bought, used and can’t use anymore because of something the supplier did could be interpreted as theft.

When he was finally done, he approached us and I said “Hi how are you?” with a smile.

There’s probably the problem. Don’t ask a german “how are you”, they will interpret it as the start of a conversation, not a greeting. You might either get weird looks or a detailled personal and medical history of that person. In food service, you get to the point. A “Excuse me” or “Can we order please” is a way better way to initiate an order.