Follow the little blue dot....

On my way to the grocery store this morning, I decided to stop at the neighborhood recycling center with my empty cans and glass (and of course, my empty PET and milk bottles - but those need to go back to the store...NOT the recycling center)  As soon as I deposited my recyclables in the appropriate receptacles, a woman passing by said something to me in Swiss German that I couldn't make out - shocker...I can't believe I don't understand the people around here yet!  Since I assumed she was telling me I did something wrong (I had only cleaned out the cans and removed the paper labels - but hadn't cut off the bottoms and flattened them...the horror!) - I gave her a quick "Spreche kein Deutsch" and went on my merry way.  However as I continued following her while she peered at her iPhone, I realized she had actually been asking me for directions, not reprimanding me!  So I decided to approach her in my broken German and then actually helped her find the street she was looking for - Kreuzstrasse - right in my very own neighborhood.  Yeah, that's right - I helped a Swiss woman find her way around Zürich - good thing I was there - since the updated iPhone mapping function stinks!