Schnitzel Republic: It's Complicated

Saturday, April 25, 2026

It's Complicated

I've checked into a hotel in Berlin...I'll avoid the name...today.

So...the desk gal accompanied us (me and the wife)....over to the room. Yeah, its a 425 euro a night deal.

I'll just say...theres like 50 different technical features, and in 2 minutes...i believe it was a mistake.

The AC unit...the tv...16 different LED lights, the electric windows...electric blinds...and so on.

I'm into tech crap...but i needed the orientation gal to give a 12 minute lecture...not the 2 minute there-you-go speech.

3 comments:

HD Wrench said...: Never work for my wife. Don't get me wrong, she is one of the smartest people I know, but if you give her a piece of tech, it's like a monkey doing a crossword. She yells at her phone, her computer, the tv remote, etc. etc.; 4/25/2026 12:18:00 PM
Schnitzel_Republic said...: My wife is in this 'path'....tech crap (even a Samsung TV remote) is beyond her. After buying the Audi A5....she realized the limits of her tech understanding, and the unlimited features she ordered with the car. Looking across Germany.....I'd say almost 40-percent o the population is in this problem-area.; 4/27/2026 01:24:00 AM
HD Wrench said...: Not me...I embrace all things tech. My wife said if I go before here, she will be lost.; 4/27/2026 10:19:00 AM

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First, note that this is NOT a blog....it's a collection of essays similar in nature to what the Greek Plutarch attempted to write.

Second: NO, there will be no Facebook connection to the essay collection. Besides the negativity with FB, there is just too much potential in the future for censorship with FB.

Third, this log of essays is written by an American (not a German). If you are a German seeking commentary written by a German, on Germans....look elsewhere.

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I was one of those Americans who did over twenty years of military time....married a German....and eventually returned as a retiree.

I'm one of the few who stood under the German umbrella.....paid German taxes for some years.....German social security.....and felt the various pains like Germans.

So, this is my all-purpose commentary essay, designed for non-Germans mostly (and those Germans who accidentally discover it). I tend to put German culture into the spotlight of sarcasm, wit and humor. I'm simply pointing out the richness and craziness of life in Germany, which even some Germans can't understand.

The amusing thing is that I'm merely repeating the exercise that Mark Twain performed in 1880, when he published "A Tramp Abroad". Various comments were dished out on the Germans....which apparently did not trigger any wars, chaos, climate change, or ill feelings.

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