If you can't beat them... Join them... My new jacket €2 With regards to my swanky new jacket - When we went out friday it was frigid. So not wanting to be 'too sporty, ja,' I was dressed to the nines and had my jacket on. Well this baffled quite a few German's in town seeing a military man in such a jacket with really nice clothes on underneath... or so I thought... I've found that this is still a current jacket since when picking up Calvin at the HBF I saw a military guy wearing the same jacket. When we made our Burger King run a wild eyed German asks in German something about the military. I smile and say no. He nods then goes about ordering. 30 seconds later while I'm still waiting for my retardedly expensive whopper junior he starts talking to me again. Finally I have to say I don't speak German and I'm a Canadian citizen whose primary language is Spanish. Turns out he was real military and it is apparently very unacceptable to wear the above jacket in public. Which would explain the weird looks I got earlier in the night. So in the end I will have to brave the arctic summer here and have a swanky souvenir to wear when I'm back goosestepping in the states.
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Did you get your goosestepping boots too? I'd get in so much trouble in Germany. I'd get all drunk and start accusing them all of being nazis. The bouncer who said you were too sporty? Yeah I would have called him a nazi. I'd be quoting X-Files constantly, "I don't speak nazi!"
Hmm...nobody here really cares if you wear a military jacket, vintage or current. Once again ze Germans are all wound up about military shit.
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