Nada Importante redux

So, I originally wrote this post from FRA Tuesday evening while waiting- a LONG time- for my flight.

The problem with my particular section of the large terminal was that my particular sector, gates 50-54, had NO electricity outlets. Thus, my 5pm arrival for my 8:30 flight was basically an empty time to get no work done. And I thoght the Germans were all efficient and well thought out on such things. Perhaps the inability to work is not necessarily a bad thing, right? That's tru until the next morning when you've suddenly got 2x as much to do- 1/2 of which could have been done the evening before when you had absolutely nothing to do, except watch the loop of Germany's version of CNN.

Luckly I had my Blackberry so I could at least do a little BBB (Blackberry Blogging).

Then I began to think that perhaps being stuck in an airport w/ no outlets was not so bad, at least not as bad as as living behind a wall for most of one's life. You see, the day before coming to Frankfurt, I was in Berlin. Yes, The Wall has been down for quite some time. However, I saw at least one, perhaps 100m, section that has been preserved.

I just have this feeling that living behind The Wall would have really sucked. The isolated structure that I saw, with a few holes and breaks in it here and there, was not so imposing. However, I'm preptty sure that is due to the fact that I could see the other end of it. When The Wall existed in it its entirety, it must not have just seemed like some barrier you normally associate with an airport or other sensitive installation.

I gathered that the "REAL" wall was about 9 or 10 feet high x 1/2 foot deep at the top and maybe 1 foot deep at its base. The Wall appeared to consist of of sections about 3 feet wide. The a foot base thickness/depth was in addition to an additional 3 foot long slanting foot that kept it standing.

This foot was on the side that was the started the whole "Axis of Evil" club, the USSR. So I guess the allies paid a little more for The Wall and got the nice-looking side. Or perhaps Daddy Evil did not want The Wall accidentally toppling over on the inevitable inhabitant who tried to scale it. They devised over solutions to this problem (a.k.a. moving-target practice) as there are at least two memorials to attest.

We all grew up with news of the wall and also that of it's toppling, but there are a couple of quesitons that I still wonder about:
A) what about the guy who just had one last errand to run from the "good" side to pick up something on the "evil" side?? So he comes out of the convenience store/pulperia/tienda/etc, just to find that the last section had been put in place right where he had transited The Wall just 5 minutes prior!!; and B) if you were born in E. Berlin after The Wall was already up, would it really be so bad as that was all you'd ever know?

And finally, the most burning question: which is worse, the wrong side of The Wall or the wrong side of the tracks??