Don´t Make Yourself Smaller Than I Am

Video from this morning - ahhh, if I´d only known I´d slept with the window wide open! Not much to see, but turn on the sound, sooo nice!



I know, many really suffer from the rain in Germany right now - still I may enjoy it over here, no?

I saw a German comedy yesterday… was it a comedy, actually? Had a lot of truth in it.

A small toy-company with a very enthusiastic and friendly but incompetent boss was about to go bust.
He employed a guy for help.
That dude´s name was the same as mine, Mr. K, which was quite irritating – in Germany it´s in some places still quite common to use the family name and stick to the formal “Sie”.
Hence I heard my name throughout the entire thing all the time.

And he was an arrogant ##!

His secretary to be, J, was a friendly, caring but shy person (ummm, hello…), needed the job desperately cause she had a daughter to take care of.
She´d seen that Mr. K had an empty fish tank so, to make a good start, she went with her daughter to buy a fish.
The shop assistant was a-hem… growth-restricted? No, he was a dwarf and he asked what kind of a person that new boss of hers is.

She wasn´t absolutely sure yet (and too “well behaved” to tell the truth) but the shop assistant got a clue, grinned, looked at the fish to be, both, the man´s and the fishe´s eyes turned red.

Long story short, Mr. K suddenly found himself as small as the toy he wanted to invent.

J, who´d talked him finally off the day before, came back for an excuse to keep the job, found him, took care of him – end of the story is clear, they fell in love and with being less an ## he grew to his regular size (twice).

Gave me a lot of thinking of how he supported had to support her when she had his job to do and how she reacted to it.
Via cellphone he gave instructions, like tell the people off. But she did it her way and succeeded.

His “don´t make yourself smaller than I am” was what gave her the confidence to do the job.

Guess I need a Mr K as well at times. And yes, technically, at least for the guys at the bakery, I have one.
But instead of encouraging me he does for me…

Sadly, btw, the movie took place in October/November – not nice to see the bald trees, all the clothes you have to wear against the nasty weather, knowing you´ll be there sooner than you want again.

These days we happily complain about the “sauna” we have to work in, it´s hot up in the office (us advanced Germans don´t have aircon).
It´s grey outside, raining and smelling soooo good – I just love summer!



Way to my car - with a free hand I could´ve made him greet you, but, alas!

Is that a German saying, that rain makes you grow? This morning I accidentially caught some drops of rain, despite having my brolly :-)
My transparent-blue one to which my customer stopped, looked and me and grinned, "you always have a blue sky, do you!"
Yes, mostly :-)
And teamleader played around with it, too!