oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
When the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall came down our company was interested in a large plant in Zwickau, East Germany and we were told to go there and have a look at it. We hired a car at Frankfurt and drove there looking at the contrast between East and West. In my hotel room the bathroom had some very basic plumbing and when I took my shoes off I realised that the floor of my room was awash from a water leak. I complained in reception but they said they had no other rooms and no other hotels available. They were very embarrassed, apologetic and upset not the way to impress someone from the west and I felt a bit sorry for them.
So using some Brummie 'make do and mend' I asked them to give me two plastic bags and two elastic bands and put the bags on my feet secured with the bands so I could happily walk round my room with dry feet.
And so I moved into the post Cold War era !
So using some Brummie 'make do and mend' I asked them to give me two plastic bags and two elastic bands and put the bags on my feet secured with the bands so I could happily walk round my room with dry feet.
And so I moved into the post Cold War era !