Back in med school in Leipzig, I used to work part-time as a nursing assistant on the med-surg floors. The money was good and one also learnt quite a bit about patient care.

In the evenings, I got to give the patients dinner and coffee. After that, I went through all the rooms collecting the coffee cups, plates and cutlery. One evening, I noticed I was short of several coffee cups so I had to go through all the patients rooms looking for the missing cups.

A coffee cup is “Tasse” in German and the term “..nicht alle tassen in Schrank haben” translates literally “..not having all the cups in the cupboard” but it’s a saying used to describe someone with a screw loose somewhere in the head – a nutcase!

So I march into the first room and blurt out: “Habe ich hier eine Tasse vergessen? (Did I leave a coffee cup here?) Ich habe nichts alle Tassen im Schrank!”

You could have heard the laughter miles away!

One day this past summer, I was driving the family to dinner. I was waiting for the green light at a crossroad when I noticed a six-pack of Bud Light lying off the road in the bushes. I asked my wife to and get it but she wouldn’t. Just as I was about to go out and get it, the lights turned green. All the cars behind started honking and i had to get back in the car and drive off leaving the poor six-pack alone in the heat.

Now let an advertiser make something of this. Won’t it be a cool commercial?