... Always Ring Twice?

Sabine Richard
Dec 21, 2013

When my father drove to town to shop at nearby Ikea, he also planned to swing by and perform some minor Mr. Fix-its at our flat.  

As he was leaving Ikea, he phoned to say he was five minutes away. Sure enough, five minutes later our buzzer sounded and I let Papa into the building. I opened our door, and when the familiar ring of the lift reaching our floor sounded, I warmly shouted out,

"Hallo! Magst du etwas frühstücken?" (Would you like some breakfast?)  The chuckling postman handed over my box from Amazon. "Unterschrift, bitte..." - Sign here please...