Stau = Germany's National Obsession

Call it the most hated word, call it a national obsession, whatever you call it, it still is a pain when it hits you. And not once, not twice, but three times in a row. Traffic Jams...the radio blares incessantly "Stau am A3 zwischen Frankfurt und....bla bla bla...fuer 20 km...." almost every 20 minutes. You gotta hand it to them Germans, they are really efficient when it comes to reporting this sort of thing. And the funny thing is, all of a sudden, it all clears up.Or, how about this, hailstorm sound clips playing through the national airwaves after a distraught resident of the Blackforest reports his windscreen has been shattered...or, even the rear one. They probably had baseballs falling from the sky. But to be honest, it DID sound like someone was playing drums on your car...save the fact that your car IS the drum. Typhoon struck the outer reaches of Cologne a cople of days ago...hailstorm does a windscreen smashing galore in the south west...I really don't want to know what is next.
Except that dinner is chicken curry. That's some form of familiarity for you. Guten Appetit meine Damen und Herren.