In the last two weeks I have had a couple of dairy disasters. Bizarre.
Last week, it was very windy, and I was going home on my bike with the groceries safely (I thought) tucked into the string bag I made. I stopped at the bank machine to get out some money, and of course, my bike fell over, spilling everything. The milk opened and a pool of white liquid collected on the sidewalk. I had to walk the bike home with the offending carton of milk in one hand.
Two days ago, I was once again going home from the supermarket with all my
stuff safely tucked away in my string bag (will I never learn?), and as I climbed the stairs to my apartment, I noticed strange white drips following me. I searched through the bag and drew out the offending container of cream (they put it in plastic cup with a foil lid)-- it had gotten punctured on my bike ride home. I continued a little less merrily up the stairs mumbling under my breath about stupid German packaging, but when I got to my apartment, I noticed there was ANOTHER trail of cream!! I had bought two containers (I was making a bad, bad cake) and they were BOTH punctured! So, now I took off my coat, grabbed the paper towels and Meister Proper (or Mr. Clean to you Americans), and set off to clean EVERY STAIR in the building. Naturally I was wearing a sweater that I had "re-designed" to have a plunging V in the back. Why not? After two floors of hands-and-knees stair cleaning, I remember that I had forgotten something. That's right, the keys to the apartment. So, after I finished cleaning all
the cream off the stairs, I had to walk to Jeremy's laboratory-- without a coat, without any money or identification-- to get his keys. Nice guy that he is, he walked back with me and let me wear his coat.
Of course, today I feel like I'm getting a fric-fracking cold.
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i thought that the germans were supposed to be masters of design and efficiency? boo germany, boo to your unsecured creams and milks
It does seem that some things around here have slipped through the design cracks!
I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience. Hopefully you'll have 3 good days to take the sting away. How are you feeling - coldwise?
I feel better today. Yesterday I was a total baby and only stayed home eating soup and drinking OJ!
Aww... I hope you are feeling better! I am getting over a cold myself...
speaking of babies though, I am sponsoring a walk for the March of Dimes!
I (and babies everywhere) would love any amount of donation from your blog viewers and yourselves. Here's the link: www.marchforbabies.org/intaxicated
Hey Gravlaxes! We miss you! We must also arrange a time for a trans-atlantic call. Wait- is it really still trans-atlantic if it gets beamed up to a satellite? No matter.
Also will you email me your address- I'd love to send you your Christmas presents! This Sunday being the last sunday after the epiphany I'm really pushing it getting there during the christmas season!
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It would be a transatlantic call, since the call is likely routed through a very large fiberoptic cable that lays across the atlantic seabed.
Sarah: why don't you just buy a car? you can get a bmw for cheap over there... and you wouldn't have to do all that nasty exercise on your bike either.
So I'm "The Drunken Motorhead's Blog" That's actually really funny.. I wonder if i should change my title to that....
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