As of: February 2, 2024, 6:03 a.m
By: Romina Kunze
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Strike wherever you look.
Sometimes it's long-distance transport, sometimes it's flight processing, now it's public transport.
Travelers fluctuate between helplessness and gallows humor.
Munich – What do you do if you, as a rail traveler, slip from one strike to the next?
The third strike by train drivers in long-distance and regional transport within a month had barely ended prematurely when the United Services Union Verdi announced the next strike.
This time it affects local public transport (ÖPNV).
For people without a car, this means severe restrictions on getting from A to B – again.
For some, the helplessness and frustration turns into anger, while others react with gallows humor.
Maybe not the worst way to handle it.
After all, laughter is supposed to be contagious.
It's hard to imagine that the following "strike songs" don't make you smile at least a little bit.
Standstill again: travelers react to public transport restrictions with “strike songs”.
Music has been proven to improve mood: numerous scientific studies have shown that it can change the heartbeat, positively influence breathing rate and lower blood pressure.
Last but not least, your personal favorite songs are also like a little recovery for the psyche.
That's why many people turn on their favorite playlist when they have to do unpleasant tasks like cleaning or tidying up.
Or of course they are stressed, sad or annoyed.
So anyone who finds themselves lost at lonely bus and tram stops from Friday (February 2nd) can try humming the melody of Nena's hit “Somehow, somewhere, sometime”.
It is one of the “strike songs” that are circulating on social media.
In a slightly modified form, however.
“Damn, she’s driving today, she’s not driving today”: These are the funniest “strike songs”
A number of users expressed their frustration about the rail strikes in a creative and extremely original way on the former Twitter platform X by rewriting well-known hit songs accordingly.
The Instagram account “Twitterperlen” has collected some of these musical “strike breakers”.
Many of the hits seem to age particularly well: most of them were played during a strike in 2014, but are being reissued due to current events.
Here is a small selection of the most original and funniest song parodies;
the strike song charts, if you will:
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“Wake me up when the train strike ends”
“Somehow, somewhere, at some point a train will finally run”
“No connection through the night”
“Damn, she’s driving today, she’s not driving today.”
“Railway to Hell”
“Rail sense!
Why don't you drive me to work?
Work work work"
Or even funny, but not quite as appropriate, the reference to the Bavarian rock song from 1981: “Outside the big city, the travelers are flat-footed.”
On the one hand, the current strike affects public transport and therefore primarily buses, trams and subways - commuters come into the city from outside on regional trains and many S-Bahn trains - and on the other hand, the state of Bavaria remains unaffected by public transport. Outstandings are unaffected.
This is why the rubbish is probably left lying around in some places.
However, it is questionable whether the songs will resonate with the affected employees who are fighting for better working conditions.
But they would definitely prefer them to being treated with hostility by the travelers.
-Link.
After all, humor is an “anger pressure reducer,” as a well-known German cabaret artist would say.
Especially since the next rail strike is probably just around the corner.
(rku)