My brother went to big city to school to learn how to drive a steam locomotive. One time he came home for a weekend. He gave me a friendly slap and said he drove an old locomotive and it's parking now at the terminal on the twelve track. If we would like to come and see it. We didn't. How will you get back? I have to drive first to Cheb, it is a big terminal, where I can turn around and go back.
Then he gave me another slap for meddling into something what wasn't my business. "You said to Tina I have a girl friend." "I didn't talk to Tina and you always have a girl friend, one or two." "How did she find out?" "I go to same class with Hanka from Tina's village. She asked."
Brother began to talk about happenings in the big city. "There was a big accident. The elevator's cables broke and the elevator fell down from the fifteenth floor. "Was somebody in it?" He paused for a while. "Do you remember my friend Toni?" "Is it the same one you won a bet for eating a worm?? "Yes. He came to the building just in time of crush. He went to take a closer look. There was a broken elevator and nobody around, so he crawled inside of the rubble. They found him there lying unconscious. They took him to the hospital for x-rays. He didn't have a single bone broken. Not even a scratch. He complains about headaches, dizzy spells and blurred vision. He can not work anymore, so he will be getting disability pension. His lawyer is suing an elevator company. He might get a nice package. You do not tell this to anybody, do you hear? Or I shall tear your years off!"
There was no waiting locomotive in the depot, I met Toni on the town square two weeks later. Tina was still disappointed and I tried to avoid my classmate from her village, because I didn't want to carry any more messages.
My brother and I can not keep our mouths shut and we share the same vivid imagination.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, January 2011
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