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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Your Library Has ArrivedBefore moving to Berlin I sent about 10 boxes of books ahead, which I now realize is like throwing a bunch of baseballs really high and then running to the edge of the field with your mitt to catch them all. The mitt being my apartment: Ten boxes of books won't fit in here. No way.
The amusing part is a tale of German bureacracy. After four or five parcel notices came in the mail I went to visit my books at the customs office, where I chatted with an official about what was in the boxes and then asked him to put them back in the mail because I couldn't carry all 200 pounds of books on the U-Bahn. He said they'd arrive in 4 or 5 business days. (From across town?) I asked if we could conduct these little pleasantries next time by mail, or by phone, since all 10 boxes would only drag in the same boring story; he said no. I came home the same day to find another notice in the mail.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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