Locked up with a cockroach in the shower? when a nightmare suddenly comes true
The photo wallpaper comes to life
Sometimes reality is not for the faint hearted. For example, the seaplane flight that had an engine failure. "Will be fine!" Said the pilot. "Will not it?", The co-pilot said .. Nevertheless we flew? and in the end actually got well. Or working with december-bright skin under blazing sun, while the sunscreen was still in the suitcase. Well, I learned something: the sun can cause real blisters. All this and also the shark fins, which shot brightly through the turquoise blue water, could not harm my joy. I was in paradise, damn it. In the midst of a photo wallpaper that I would have raged out of hand to any interior decorator because she was so cheesy. And it was wonderful!
The shower after a long day of work
At least until this one evening, when I wanted to have a quick shower after a long day at work. Outside the bungalow, next to the bathroom, was an outdoor shower. Three meters high stone walls, above me the starry sky, warm water that flowed pleasantly over my aching body. I shut the door to the bathroom to keep insects out of the light. And then I saw her: the giant cockroach. Quickly she scurried between my legs, up the walls, down again, and I shouted against the glass door to the bathroom. But that did not move a centimeter. Obviously, there was no "half-to-go" in paradise. Too was here too. And I was trapped, surrounded by smooth walls where I would never come up, in the company of a cockroach as big as my palm on a bungalow so far from the others that no one heard my screams would. Besides, I was stark naked.
The shortest love story in the world
At this point a tip for life: It makes sense to speak the word "help" in many languages. Just in case you stand with a cockroach in the shower and can not get out. What happens in life just like that in between. For my part, I did English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, but that did not impress anyone in the first hour. Except maybe the cockroach, because it was nice and quiet. Then, after an hour "Aiuto, Help, SOS, Help and Aidéz-moi", he was there. My savior. A colleague whom I did not know (luckily). Meanwhile I sat? howling and laughing at the same time? huddled in a corner and had long been the BILD headline in the head: Germans in the shower eaten by insects. Yeah! At least one end that would make me famous. Well, that did not happen. Marvin, my savior, calmed me down first, then swung on my bike and got a porter. With raised eyebrows finally freed me from my prison and silently handed me a towel. Marvin was standing outside waiting.
A blind date without a happy ending
When I got dressed, I went out to thank him. He was handsome, the Marvin, and charming. We decided to marry, because there would never be a better acquaintance story. Romeo and Juliet, Bonnie and Clyde, they would all turn green with envy. Nobody ever beat Marvin and Marie! Then we went to feed little sharks. Unfortunately we had to cancel the wedding two hours later. For a moment, we had both forgotten that we had been engaged at home long ago. He with a woman whom he met in the office. Me with a disco acquaintance. Boring, I know. But at least we had something to tell at home. He from his heroic deed and me from a nightmare from which I was saved.
