My German Boss
My company has an office in Frankfurt and I had been doing some work at a German bank. I had had to stay there two consecutive (and unplanned) weekends which I hadn't been happy about. When I had to do the same for a third weekend, my boss offered to fly my wife and eight year-old son over and said we could stay at his gaff.

This was a nice gesture, I thought. My boss was a charming and courteous German bloke, with a beautiful house with a pool, sauna etc, so it would be a very pleasant weekend. He said we could borrow his Mercedes and do some touring. It would be a bit of a treat.

Come Friday afternoon, and my boss's wife (two metres of Claudia Schiffer lookalike) went to collect my wife from the airport while I finished my work at the bank. After finishing, I went to my company's offices, where my boss had invited all the staff into his big corner office for some Champagne to welcome this English family to Frankfurt. So, there were about twenty people gathered there, together with my boss's wife and his young daughter who was drawing horses on the whiteboard.

My boss cracked out the Champers, we all had a bit of banter, and my son politely asked the daughter (in English) if he could borrow the pen and do some drawing too. Ah, it was a warm moment.

Until one of my colleagues said "Oh, I think maybe it is better if you see what your son is doing on the whiteboard."

I turned around to see my son had drawn a huge airship covered in swastikas.

Clearly, in the eyes of the Germans, this is what I had taught him to do.
(Super Jet Shoes, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:11, 5 replies)

lolz
Kids, great eh!?

clicks!
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:14, closed)

Ausgezeichnet!
And all the better for the brilliant interpretation of 'this is the way that the German's are talking English' in the antepenultimate line.

**click**
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 12:31, closed)

Genius
That is friggin' awesome.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 13:23, closed)

*der-clicks*
Ah, Zeppelins, swastikas and innocent children. What's not to like about this post?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 1 Dec 2008, 15:24, closed)