Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Diffs
In America people get involved with the community in order to save us from ourselves.
In Germany people are involved in 'the community' because that's what community means.
In Germany people are involved in 'the community' because that's what community means.
Diffs
Germans would rather forgo something material than to have a substandard version of it.
Americans could care less about material or functional quality and, in fact, it doesn't even always have to work because it's simply the idea of owning the material thing that's more important.
Americans could care less about material or functional quality and, in fact, it doesn't even always have to work because it's simply the idea of owning the material thing that's more important.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Welcome 'home'
The last email I got in Germany was from the aqmd warning me about the air quality in LA.
in Stuttgart I got pulled out and everything but stripped searched. The atomizer tester went berzerk. Too bad my passport was with ute.
In hotlanta ute forgot to throw out the apples we brought from Germany. Had to go to the agricultural inspection section. That's double trouble and triple time. Then there were two people to recheck the bags for two full airplanes.
Hotlanta makes you take a train to get to connecting gate. We scrambled but made it just in time. Too bad the machine buzzed and flashed red lights when we tried to scan our boarding passes. 'Someone already has those seats', was the sigh of the gate checking lady. Phone calls galore and they finally let us on. Walking in the door of the plan a stewardess tells me to hold I so she can bring a tray of water forward. I oblige, separating myself from ute, max and Leo. She trips over a piece of lint and dumps the tray all over the aisle. Ute max and Leo are long gone. I politely pick up one of the bottles of water and hand to to her. She says, 'you can have that for free.' It's an 8oz dasani. I start to respond, 'this cost me 8 grand, baloney that its for free' but think better of it.
I get to our seats and they're actually not taken. Some jig went right!!
About to take off from hotlanta. For all I know we're flying to seskatchewan. I'll walk home if that turns out to be true.
Over and out.
in Stuttgart I got pulled out and everything but stripped searched. The atomizer tester went berzerk. Too bad my passport was with ute.
In hotlanta ute forgot to throw out the apples we brought from Germany. Had to go to the agricultural inspection section. That's double trouble and triple time. Then there were two people to recheck the bags for two full airplanes.
Hotlanta makes you take a train to get to connecting gate. We scrambled but made it just in time. Too bad the machine buzzed and flashed red lights when we tried to scan our boarding passes. 'Someone already has those seats', was the sigh of the gate checking lady. Phone calls galore and they finally let us on. Walking in the door of the plan a stewardess tells me to hold I so she can bring a tray of water forward. I oblige, separating myself from ute, max and Leo. She trips over a piece of lint and dumps the tray all over the aisle. Ute max and Leo are long gone. I politely pick up one of the bottles of water and hand to to her. She says, 'you can have that for free.' It's an 8oz dasani. I start to respond, 'this cost me 8 grand, baloney that its for free' but think better of it.
I get to our seats and they're actually not taken. Some jig went right!!
About to take off from hotlanta. For all I know we're flying to seskatchewan. I'll walk home if that turns out to be true.
Over and out.
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