You know that you’ve been away from Germany for too long, when:

1. you’re unable to identify your Golf Kombi rental car in the parking area (because they don’t sell this model in the US)
2. you wonder why people are driving so slowly (140km/h) on the Autobahn (they used to drive faster when I still lived here)
3. you wonder how people can live with such small fridges
4. you are amazed by all the cute little trash cans people have (where the heck do you put all the packing material from your Amazon orders?)
5. you wonder when the Weinbiet tower was cut in half (apparently it was only taller in my memories)
6. when you find Germany’s busiest airport, small, cramped, inconvenient and “Stueckwerk”, lacking an overall broad vision (did you ever walk the new Terminal 1 parking garage walkway? Low ceilings, non heated, no buses, no conveyor belts and elevators that only go up or down – not both – a strange place indeed)

Looks like I’m a spoiled and confused American with a German passport by now.