It’s nein out of 10 for spaghetti and pizza
1. From Tim, a touching story of heartbreak and loss, but from a slightly different perspective:
ON WEDNESDAY morning, Herr Maisenbacher cried. The owner, manager and cook of the Pfedelbacher Hof had been a man of few words over the past three weeks but he was never short of emotion.
Trudging back into his guesthouse after returning from Kaiserslautern on Monday night, he had greeted us at his front door. “Schwein!” he said, shaking his head. Pigs. He was not reading from his menu but describing the Italians who had just played Australia. He spoke no English and our German remains restricted to a few items on menus, the word “bier”, and the numbers one to 10. So Herr Maisenbacher mimicked a bird and then someone diving. The Italian had swallow-dived, he thought.
“Schwein!” he said again. “Spaghetti? Nicht! Pizza? Nicht!”
2 Amen brother, Amen.
- Posted in Australia, In the news..., RightBrain on the 04.07.2006 @ 3:17:14 AM, Permanent Link
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