Some people don’t like the way Germans always follow rules to the letter. But they like to fly with them because they do.

There’s a rule that all passengers must fasten their seat belts before take-off. Not so long ago we had one gentleman who wouldn’t. The captain tried for twenty minutes to convince him. Unsuccessfully. Then he turned the plane around, taxied back and gently threw him off.

The other passengers probably felt a little inconvenienced. We hope they also felt more comfortable about hard-headed German thoroughness. And realized that there’s one nice thing about people who are fussy about little things. They’re extremely fussy about big things.