I'm sitting at my computer, blindly shoving iced animal crackers into my mouth and drinking my 3rd cup of espresso, when I hear the school bell clear as day. I'm thinking that "I just can't get a handle on why that bell rings all the time at a Kindergarten", but as I'm imagining the little German kids gathering their books to change classes, I notice the van across the street!
OK, I first came across this van when we had just moved in. I was upstairs in my room spinning in circles and falling on my bed laughing with dizziness, when I heard the screech of tires and a long buzzing sound. My windows were wide open and this van had turned the corner, slammed it in park, rang a loud school buzzer, flipped open the side of her van and waited. It sat there for a good couple minutes than slammed the side of the van down and sped off down the one way street. I'm pretty sure it's a bakery on wheels. A bread van of sorts, and loving doughy delights more than the average person I was ecstatic! You mean I don't have to even leave my house to get bread here!!! Dang that will be handy when it's 20 degrees in October!!! I wonder if I can look up how to say "please deliver this directly to my door when it's snowing" in German?
But then for days afterwards I stalked the window watching for the van, it was always a no show.
This elusive van seems to show up randomly (or my children induced A.D.D. doesn't allow me the attention span to discern a pattern) and the 2 other times I have been lucky enough to see it, there hasn't been a euro anywhere in sight at my house or on my person.
(That's another subject for a later time....how can I be expected to have cash on me at all times here? It's maddening, take my card, take it...there's $ in my account darn it, swipe the stupid thing already!)
But today, during my breakfast of champions, I actually saw it! Being the trained professional that I am, I swiftly grabbed my camera to document this momentous occasion (read as..."see I told u there was some kind of van that comes, see look I have proof" husband responds "whatever") and then start madly rushing for my purse to grab some euro. Finally able to dump out the stupid 1 & 2 euro coins that are so popular around here...which I might add weigh about 15 pounds in your wallet and are impossible to get out with any skill at all...go running out the door in my sweats and flannel shirt. I reach the front of my house just in time to hear the flap swing shut and the obviously electric van speed away at break neck speeds down our incredibly narrow one way street. Dang it! What's the German word for "wait! I don't know what you're selling, or if I want any, or if I even have enuf money to buy anything, but WAIT!!"?
Today's Friday right? I'm gonna have to remember Friday around 9am. That's easy enuf. So I have to wrap it up and clean upstairs, sew the other half of my living room drapes today, fix a flyer and email it, pick up the kids, and I'm suppose to remember something...what is it, oh look the sun's coming out, what's for dinner?
Chrissy the van reads "eier & geflugel" Those words are eggs and poultry. Hopefully there is some bread in there some place too!
ReplyDeleteDANG! NO WAY! Well at least we'll be eating eggs & chicken on Fridays when there's 10ft. of snow!!! I'll be one of those skinny Europeans without a bread truck though! ...Now, can M come to my neighbor's with me to ask if they have Pediatric DDS here???!!! :)
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