The background: One feature of German hotels unfamiliar to us is bedding. Instead of a top sheet the beds have a duvet: a quilt inside a sheet envelope. Too warm, but I can adapt to that by pulling out the quilt. But they also provide extra large extra soft pillows. We can't adapt to smothering. So when we found one hotel which also provided very small firm pillows, I suggested to Sandy I go try to buy two of them from the hotel.
The setup: You need too understand that the German word for pillow is kissen. The word for kissing is Kussen.
The gag: I went to the hotel's front desk and asked the freulein on duty "How much for two little cushions?" She looked stunned and said, "Kussen???" "Yes, two little pillows". She was puzzled and looked up "pillow" online. "Ah, kissen!" "No, no, not kissing, cushions!" And it went on and on. Abbot and Costello would have been proud.
In the end i did get the pillows. But no kisses.
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