Today is Friday, April 19, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of lifting weights and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for an April total of 39.5 miles. My weight was 161.8 pounds.
Inspiring QUOTE from OUR IOWA magazine: "Anything worth doing is going to take longer than you think."
My THOUGHTS today: I had so much fun writing about "How to Piss off a Dane" I thought why not have more fun and write about "How to Piss off a German," Here we go:
Tactic #1: Cross at a red light.
The simplest and best way to provoke some classic Teutonic anger is to meander across the road when the crossing light is red. If you do expect to see elderly, hunched women, beefy tattooed workman in overalls, sensible parents authoritatively clutching their young children - all united in their righteous mix of incomprehension, disgust and outrage.
Tactic #2. Stare back at them using binoculars.
If staring was an Olympic sport, the Germans would win Gold every time. In Germany, staring openly is something that just happens-like breathing or walking.
Germans here don't just stare at you, they stare through you, mostly through genuine curiosity but sometimes critically. Staring back only creates a stand-off which no one can win, so the best counter attack is to use the element of surprise: whip out a pair of small binoculars and return eye contact at close range. Then ask if they'd care to take a photo.
Tactics 3 and 4 will be posts. tomorrow.
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