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My column at 8
OMG, why is this city so loud? After a weekend of peaceful relaxation on the Polish Baltic Sea, on the Wolin peninsula - apart from the two crazy jet skiers - the juggernaut of Berlin has absorbed me again and threatens to swallow me - half past seven in Germany.
If it is still “relatively” quiet on the first two or three hundred meters on my mummy bike, the noise level of the capital increases with every meter of asphalt under my wheels. Arrived at the S-Bahn station, next to the puffing of the - what feels like 20 buses - there is also the cheery buzz of the tram laying in the bends, accompanied by the funny horn of the annoyed motorists - mind you only ever one driver per car. More is not possible. More is not allowed?
At the train station, I now discover many familiar faces of people I don't know, but meet every morning, depending on which of the many S-Bahn trains I have chosen spontaneously and depending on the morning fitness level. I happily hop along the platform - well, maybe I just walk to the end as always, and then get into the first car at the very front. The Spandau is coming. Yeah, I see, janz in front is free of cotton. But hey, times - watt is´n ditt. Jeeets yet? Did the young guy really put his ollet bike between the four places? Ditt glob ick yes not now, man ey. Well, don't want to be like that. Will be fine ... It will be full anyway - at the latest from Warsaw. And it not only gets full, but also louder ... Yippie, his band-aids are flexed. Long time no heard and yet recognized. But hey, ditt is the city, what?
But the ride ends nicer than expected. A young woman is sitting opposite me with one Paper backpack from Paperoof which is also my new companion, I think I remember having asked her six months ago if I could touch the unusual material for a backpack and how satisfied she was with the part. So, Kate, dare, just speak to her again. Shortly before Ultimo, um in front of Jannowitzbrücke, I ask her if she's still happy with it her backpack is. She beamed at me and replied that she had already seen me now also have one - in this great gray, At that time yours would only have been in eco-paper yellow and mine would have been much bigger - wow. I beam back and wish her another great day.
papero apparently made us smile together - looks like it. Merci.
