Give Frank a break! It was a joke, so how can you get on his case for not getting it? Not everyone is American and understands jokes the same. Do any of you know that it is a crime in Germany to advocate Nazis? Just forwarding this Joke might even be against the law for him. Imagine if the joke was written by someone in another country who used an offensive word to describe a black or a woman that in their county was not so bad? You would not tell a joke with the "n" word in Harlem, would you John?
Frank, It was a joke that just did not translate very well. Now that you know this, I'm sure you could understand that we have some cultural differences here.
Brad Waller
It's a lot easier to just explain to Frank that it was a joke.
On Dec 8, 2003, at 12:06 AM, Frank Dragun wrote:
John,
you are really stupid.
If you would call somebody here in Germany "Nazi" you would go to jail immediately. And what I learned - at least from American movies - if you would beheave to a police man as you described you would be at least into proper treatment from a couple of police men.
Why don't you just take care about your worn tyres??? Do you want to kill somebody on wet road?
I hope you will have to pay a lot of tickets - some people are learning just this way how to communicate with others.
Anyway I think the story you told us is just in your dremas.Poor boy.
Take care.
Excuse my poor English.
Respectfully yours
Frank
Am Montag, 08.12.03 um 00:42 Uhr schrieb John Nasta:
I went to the store today, and I was in there for only about 5 minutes. When
I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. So I went up to him
and said, "Come on, buddy, how about giving a guy a break?"
He ignored me and continued writing the ticket.
So I called him a pencil-necked nazi.
He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires!
So I called him a piece of horse turd.
He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.
Then he started writing a third ticket!
This went on for about 20 minutes... the more I abused him, the more tickets
he wrote.
I didn't care. My car was parked around the corner. I try to have a little
fun each day. It's important at my age.
