The security line in which I waited for 15 minutes was urgently evacuated by a group of Polizei bearing machine guns, and I had to follow my line-colleauges through a beer garden and a duty-free shop to find another checkpoint with another 15-minute security line.

FORBES: Interlude: Frankfurt International Airport and Feeble Attempts at German

Patrick's Day tradition at his pub: allowing any patron bearing an Irish passport to jump the line, inevitably to a chorus of catcalls from scores of Canadians shivering in line outside.

WSJ: Little Pub on the Prairie: A Saskatchewan Tavern Tries to Pull Ahead on St. Patrick's Day