Detective Butter, Voice of America Freudian Hallenbad, Se non é vero, é ben trovato
Seasonings, Wanderwoche Math - You get what it weighs, Jazz Band Ochsenwirt
Ochsenwirt (1961)
Ochsenwirt There were several taverns and pubs in the vicinity of the school compound. The most popular of them was Ochsenwirt on Main Street (Ochse = ox). To get to it, required a partisan mindset and the skill of an apache. The older pupils were always put up on the top floor of one of the three dormitory buildings, to isolate them as much as possible from extra-mural vicissitudes. To succeed in their quest for a beer at Ochsenwirt, they had to
  • carefully remove one of the glass panes from their quarters' entrance doors
  • slide through the resulting opening
  • replace the glass and moldings
  • tiptoe two floors down to the mezzanine floor
  • go through the same procedure at the main door there leading to the living quarters of the first-graders,
  • climb through their bedroom windows and get hold of the drain pipe, often stepping into half empty sardine cans and other goodies laid out on the window sill, for it was winter, and the window sill provided natural refrigeration
  • clamber down the drain pipe
  • carefully hit the icy ground without that revealing crackling sound
  • make their way diagonally across the sports field to a predetermined spot along the school wall
  • throw a blanket across the top of the wall so as to protect from the shards of glass viciously embedded in it and
  • have enough cold blood to cross casually the main road to reach the dimly lit entrance to Ochsenwirt.
On one of those nights their heart stood still as they discovered one of their school teachers at the tavern. But the gods of Greek tragedy were on their side:

the professor they faced was . . . tête-à-tête with another professor's wife.

Detective Butter, Voice of America Freudian Hallenbad, Se non é vero, é ben trovato
Seasonings, Wanderwoche Math - You get what it weighs, Jazz Band Ochsenwirt

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