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So my wife told me I was more German than she was today. Here's the situation. I forgot to order Cabbage at work so I had to drive by Lidl and buy a whole bunch so we could make Kraut. Some homeless guy asked me for 50 cents for a cart. I moved immediately to give the guy 50 cents but it turned into I pay a penny for his thoughts. As I was reaching into my purse he said

"Das ist aber viel Kohl oder?" ( isn't that a lot of cabbage? )

I told him "Ich arbeite im Restaurant. Wir machen heute Kraut"

To which he replied softly "Ja. ja."

And like .... I have this opinion that I or whoever should be able to buy as much cabbage as I would like without tolerating your unsolicited opinions of my obscene amount of cabbage. I don't care about your demographic or social standing. This is my cabbage and my business. Take your fifty cents and leave. My wife told me my ideas of wanting privacy regardless of the obscene possesion of cabbage was rather German of me.

#integration #immigrantlife