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Family, Childhood, Boy, Hesse, Germany, Nostalgia, Humor, Adventure, Rural live, Siblings, Chopper bike, Chopper bicycle, Bicycle, Air Rifle, choppers, Literatur in verwandten Sprachen Deutsche Literatur, Deutsche Sprache, lustige Gedichte, Länder, Gebiete, Völker // Hessen, Erinnerungen, Economic aspects of Rural families, Kindheitserinnerung, Fahrrad, Geschwister, Geschwisterbeziehung, Deutschland, Landleben (Motiv)People
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Germany, Kirchhain (Hesse, Germany), Amöneburg (Marburg-Biedenkopf), Marburg (Germany), Marburg (Landkreis), Kirchhain (Hesse)Times
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Chopper Bikes and Bell-Bottoms: A German Tale
21.02.2023, Independently Published
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Chopper Bikes and Bell-Bottoms: A German Tale
20.02.2023, Independently Published
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First Sentence
"The drum brake in the front wheel of my beloved chopper bicycle started to get uncomfortably loud one day when I pulled the brake lever."
Table of Contents
Chapter One.
My bicycle – my world
The rifle
Our television set
A summer's day
Super 8
Chapter Two.
Broken cookies
Lack of money
Borrow money
Receipt
Chapter Three.
Ute and the light switch
Five mark and a magic eye
Stock Car Racing
Portable radio with pain
Chapter Four.
Lack of money again
Shopping without mone
Strife and fear at night
Neighbor’s TV antenna
Chapter Five.
Animals
Flying milk
American soldiers
Ammunition and DB police
On the railway tracks
Shot in the thumb
The potato problem
Gote Wilhelmine
Chopper bike accident
Chapter Six.
The Evel Knievel of our city
‘Locked sign’ and bee sting
Boys' Game
Bloodbath in the cellar
Happy end for the pigeons
Sylvia's tape recorder
Brothers Grimm
Chapter Seven.
The burned-down farm
Liquid manure in the cellar
The car accident
Road bicycle and fire brigade
Police at home
Chapter Eight.
Home job and ‘After Eight’
Lutz
Grandma and Grandpa
Fire on the leg
The new road bicycle
Chapter Nine.
Neighbor’s gutter
Volker
Turned upside down
Gossip
Bitter chocolate bars
Night swimming
Fire
Chapter Ten.
News from the dump
Lesson in economy
Chocolate factory
Lesson for life
Fire in the house
Hot waffles
Cuckoos in the house
Slammed down
Chapter Eleven.
Unbridled anger
Without electricity
Dark
Blessing in disguise
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The people say, “The dog is buried in Hesse.”
Do you think there is really boredom and daily monotony in this German rural area?
This humorous tale will convince you otherwise! You will be amazed by the exciting, bizarre, and sometimes tragic events that took place there.
Join Jasper, a 10-year-old boy who grew up in 1973 in simple, strangely twisted circumstances and saw the world from his very own perspective.
Excerpts
BORROW MONEY
Werner was my mother's younger brother and my
uncle. So we visited the mother of Werner's wife.
So much I could already explain about
relationships in the kinship It was also clear to me
that mom wanted to borrow money that she would
never pay back. But how she had come across Aunt
Annemarie, of all people, was a mystery to me.
The house of my uncle's parents-in-law was
located in a village on a hill. I would have had to
pedal quite a bit if I had come here with the bicycle.
Now we stood in front of the old, crooked, half-
timbered building. The cellar consisted of – these
typical for Central Germany – coarse-beaten light
brown sandstones. There was nothing left of the
half-timbering, as the house was covered with
square slates. Before we climbed the steep stairs to
the entrance with its tiny vestibule, Mother looked
into the open door of the laundry room. “Two
buckets of Dash detergent,” she whispered,
grinning conspiratorially at me.
Werner was my mother's younger brother and my
uncle. So we visited the mother of Werner's wife.
So much I could already explain about
relationships in the kinship It was also clear to me
that mom wanted to borrow money that she would
never pay back. But how she had come across Aunt
Annemarie, of all people, was a mystery to me.
The house of my uncle's parents-in-law was
located in a village on a hill. I would have had to
pedal quite a bit if I had come here with the bicycle.
Now we stood in front of the old, crooked, half-
timbered building. The cellar consisted of – these
typical for Central Germany – coarse-beaten light
brown sandstones. There was nothing left of the
half-timbering, as the house was covered with
square slates. Before we climbed the steep stairs to
the entrance with its tiny vestibule, Mother looked
into the open door of the laundry room. “Two
buckets of Dash detergent,” she whispered,
grinning conspiratorially at me.
Page 37,
added by Kon Web.
Description of the family's financial problems. This is one of the main themes of the book.
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