Saturday, December 13, 2008

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The returnable professional from Prenzlauer Berg

I'm running since three quarters of an hour through the neighborhood from a mom and pop shop to another to finally get rid of the returnable bottles, the machine will not accept flirting emperor. A tough process. The Vietnamese general store next door admits right away that I bought the Bionade bottles with him, denies But outright any credit for the Flens. In fact, I was negotiating with the daughter of the house. She is 14 and very determined. I'm annoyed. After much back and forth I succeed in their "necessity", two Hefeweizenflaschen. When I hold her organic apple juice bottle under his nose, she laughs dry, a little disdainfully, I think. With their parents, there are packet soup and beer, no organic apple juice.

The Vietnamese in the Prenzlauer Allee takes the good grace Flens bottles, another beer, but he refuses. But I have another one, and the devil knows where the treasure has bought it. Or any guest has brought to the party. Anyway, I now walk around with it and it will not go. I buy raisins and almonds for the oriental carp. The Vietnamese shop owners ask me disappointed if I do not need a new beer. That was missing! Do I look like Sisyphus, or what? In the end, I buy a cheap red wine out of pity for cooking. Only when I'm at the very next mom and pop shop, it occurs to me that the carp in wine sauce recipe was that, while I had decided in favor of the Eastern variant.

the treasure I say all the time, he intended to distribute its not returnable purchases over the whole mountain, but at least focus on one store. Think of, perhaps, it's fun for hours with chattering bags through the area to draw and to result in any general store long negotiations? I've had enough! The treasure indeed strictly forbids me, bottle throwing easily in the container, but in my hourly wage is simply not worth it, more than half an hour behind herzulaufen 30 cents. Opportunity costs and so on. That's what I learned at that time at the university. And yes, this is true even if I Umweltsau factor with einrechne. I'm finally on Saturday and even my right to enjoy myself.

I carefully sneak to the front of the cylinder container Flirt emperor and look discreetly at me in all directions, even if nobody looks of the upright eco-neighbors. I watch it but one, and very pushy. However, he looks not like a neighbor from his jacket and worn with the wild beard. He sneaks around the container uneasy, almost as if they were his children and had to watch over them, but I'm so unnerved that I decide it necessary to resort to an open confrontation.

I prefer the self-conscious organic apple juice bottle from my jute bag and set swinging at the litter. Unfortunately, the bottle of white and I stand in front of the green container. Even the man with the wild beard next to me. It has only been missing for allowing me in your arms is loud and calls for the police.

"This is from the organic shop down there," he explains to me, and has rhinestones down by hand. He is very cooperative, at least not hostile.

"But that's not a deposit bottle is nowhere," I turn tired to come to my defense. On the self-made label really is nothing and for a moment, I hope. But the man knows his stuff, unlike me. In the quarters, and with returnable bottles anyway. He makes the obvious full-time. He drives his black, calloused hands on the script, which comes out of the bottle where it tapers. Something with "reusable" it says. I feel defeated, convicted and guilty.

"Will you return the bottle?" I offer him. Perhaps one of the embarrassing situation still make a deal. He takes off his bottle and looks at the closest I've just pulled out of the bag.

"The is of pieces up there," he says and nods qualified. When I told him turn the bottle, he dismisses the thought. "Dit is too far for me, since I now jeh not 'even more!"

He looks interested in the bag, which is still the cooking wine bottle that I unnecessarily bought. "And that is of ...", he starts. He seems to like it, I show off his expertise. And gradually I find pleasure in the man

"The full", I must say it then but still. "The I need."

"Oh," he says, looking from the bottle to me and radiates at me with his yellowed teeth. "To drink, huh?" adopt

We welcome and I prefer my way. I wonder where he intends to find the charm and pride of a real expert - with the profession. He can not afford to set up my accounts or garbled opportunity to buy wine only for cooking, because he has brought his carp recipes mixed up. I'm annoyed that I had not given him the bottle of red wine, he would certainly like to drink it. Or at least a bit of a toll that he for me at the organic shop constricted and thus save my relationship on another weekend.

I decide to be satisfied. With my hourly wage, with chattering shopping bags on Saturday afternoon and all ...

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