worse than eating a sea cucumber:

germans are all messed up. i dunno how zander stands it.

i always know when a tourist here is german because they always have small heads and really tight pants.
 
i should add that three dudes from germany stayed with us on three separate occaisions last year in our apartment (graffiti dudes) and all had teensy little heads and tight 'shants'.
 
incidentally when we got older he went to jail for beating an old lady with a lead pipe. then he got out. and like, last year he went back to jail for hitting a guy in a wheelchair repeatedly with a beer bottle.
 
he *was* a good skateboarder. i will give him that. and the old lady did keep calling him a freak every day when she passed his house in pittsfield. (the write up about both of these incidences in the berkshire eagle was amazing)