In the early 1970ies, Gudrun won a grant for studying one year in the US of America. Gudrun is a nice girl and was one of my fellow-students. Today, she holds a professorship in Stralsund. Getting a chance to study in America is a wonderful thing and Gudrun went.
After half a year in the USA, she came home for four weeks. Everything was just wonderful, except she was a little worried. She had forgotten to empty her refrigerator when she left. There was some cold meat, some milk and butter, and a few more things in there and she was afraid she would find a rather un-appetizing refrigerator on returning. In those days, if you left something in the fridge beyond its durability, what you got was mildew.
Later, when I asked her about her refrigerator on returning, she said: “Just imagine, everything in the fridge looked exactly like when I left!”
Looking at the new long durability of “fresh milk” (ESL milk), my long-held assumption is verified: Everything that happens in America will happen in Germany a few decades later.
RMD
P.S.
The picture of the Statue of Liberty is from Wikipedia. And since it fits so perfectly: Trini Lopez with America (unfortunately, it cannot be “embedded”)
(Translated by EG)
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