My limitations to talking with people was limited to English since my German is shit, but it was interesting to note (German) people's personalities.
It was like they were there and polite and nice and with you up until a certain point, and then they'd just stop and they'd look like a deer in the headlights and weren't sure what to do, especially in the presence of humor, which doesn't seem to be natural to them, and so they'd just laugh nervously instead.
Like, I was waiting at the hotel desk and was chit-chatting with the (young) (mid-20s) (German) clerk, and it turns out that the hotel was his family's business that his parents had started up years ago, and that he had gone to hotel school and then done an internship in Vienna and then come back to run the hotel, and his brother was the cook and did all of the work back in the kitchen at the attached restaurant.
"Why?", I was like, speaking in simple sentences and with basic vocabulary so that he could understand me instantly and without any problem at all. "Did your parents look at you and your brother..." - and at this point I put on a personality - "You, you look normal, you can work here, but you, you are ugly, go, go to the kitchen!"
At that, he just kind of laughed nervously and looked side to side, like he wasn't quite sure what was happening, though some small part of himself somewhere deep inside of him was maybe wanting to laugh, but he was struggling against it.
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