After four or five visits with nary a ticket controller in sight, Annie’s 7-day pass was checked three times on this last trip. That would have been 120 Euro!

I myself have been checked often enough to convince me that schwarzfahren can’t really pay in the long term: had I not had my Semesterkarte (and had I been the sort of person who could blithely ignore the possibility of ticket controls without succumbing to stomach ulcers) I would have paid about 100 Euro more in fines by this point than my Semesterkarte cost me.