A scarf knitted by a German woman to document her frustrations with frequent train delays has been sold for 7,550 euros on eBay.
The “rail delay scarf” came to prominence when Sara Weber, a journalist, posted a photo of it on Twitter earlier this month. Her mother, a commuter in the Munich area, knitted two lines a day in 2018 to represent how long she was delayed, she explained.
The scarf is color-coded: gray wool meant her delay had been less than five minutes, pink signified delays of between five and 30 minutes, while red meant she was delayed for more than 30 minutes or had been delayed both ways.
The scarf, about 1.5 meters long, represented many Germans’ frustrations with train delays, despite their country's reputation for efficiency and punctuality. After it went viral on social media, Weber and her mother decided to auction the scarf off for charity.
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