Re: [Cz-L] Queue 1970

Hi all,

I am resending this because it appears that the plain text format was lost. Jere it is.

Yes, we all recall the queues for practically everything, both in 1940/1 and in 1944/5. And not once did the counter close before we reached it.Two related stories.
I recall once we had to go somewhere a bit far from the city, in an agrarian area. Fields all around us. A lot of people with tin cans or bottles or various other containers, queueing up behind a petrol tank, to obtain some ration of 5 or 10 liters, that we needed for the lamps or small petrol cookers. It was a bright day. Suddenly the sky clouded in in part, with half of it quite close to us quite dark. Above us the sky was still bright and the sun shining. Within a couple of minutes a torrential rain just up to a couple of meters from us, like a wall. After a quarter of an hour the rain stopped. We continued to queue on dry soil. This was the first time I had watched a "Platzregen" that covered only one area, below the cloud's boundaries, and did not reach further. It made a deep impression on me - I was just 8 years old, and the scene returned to me many times in subsequent years.
When I grew older, and heard many Jewish jokes, I realised that such an event was probably a basis for the famous joke of the two Khassidim who boast about the prowess in creating Nissim of their Rebbes:
One boasted - My Rebbe had to travel home in his open wagon, on a lousy country road. Suddenly a torrential downpour. My Rebbe raised his arms and uttered a blessing - and Lo!!! there was rain on the left side of the road, there was rain on the right side of it, but on the road itself there was no rain, and my Rebbe came home completely dry!!!
Responded the second one: Is this a Ness? Listen to the Ness of my Rebbe. My Rebbe returned home on a similar road on the eve of Shabbes, and the horses got tired, and the Shabbes was approaching and he was still far from his village. So my Rebbe raised his arms and uttered a blessing, and Lo!!! there was Shabbes on the left side of the road, and there was Shabbes on the right side of the road, but Friday remained on the Road until the Rebbe reached his home!!!
And, on such a joyfull note - another story. I was standing in a queue at our lunch counter, when one of the older co-workers, who had served in the British Army in WWII, in the Egyptian and Lybian deserts, told this: He was standing in a queue just behind two Brits, approaching the Naafi counter. Just when they reached the counter, the corporal behind the shutter closed it down, because he had run our of goodies. So one of the Brits turned to his buddy and said: Well, at least we queued up!

Regards to all

Mordecai

----- Original Message -----
From: Anny Matar
Date: Monday, August 19, 2013 15:04
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Queue 1970
To: Hedwig Brenner
Cc: HARDY BREIER , czernowitz-L

> Queuing was one of the things we did for everything. I remember
> one evening
> mother and I, after visiting someone, walking home on an icy evening,
> bitter cold, wearing "Muffs" so our hands won't freeze, seeing a
> queue,fist we stood then we asked what were queuing for. oil.
> After an hour,
> frozen through, we got there when he announced "that's it". We
> came home
> late, rooms not that hot had to wait for "zertoppenen", father
> furious, no
> "Pelephones" then 1940!!!
> Picture just proves plus que ca change il reste la meme chose!!
> Regards, anny
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM, wrote:
>
> > Hi Hardy, we stand also, like these people, not for water,
> there were not
> > mineral water, nor in our dreams, we stand for milk, for
> bread, for
> > apple/jam...some 73 years ago...we will never forget
> > Hedwig
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: HARDY BREIER
> > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:57 PM
> > To: CZERNOWITZ-L
> > Subject: [Cz-L] Queue 1970
> >
> >
> > http://ic.pics.livejournal.**com/alexgrein/52619125/311563/**
> >
> 311563_900.jpg>
> > Soviet era 1970,
> > Standing in queue for soda water.
> > Hardy
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