I had one of those funny moments this morning. The kind that snaps you out of your typical morning blahs and made me remember that I live in a different country and made me smile. So I’m riding down on my bike to the train station ( just as I do every morning ) , when I come across a traffic jam. I’m thinking, this is a little strange. There isn’t exactly a massive amount of traffic in Mogelsberg in the morning, or ever.. This was no normal traffic jam though. There was a farmer and his wife, all dressed up in their fancy traditional swiss clothes, leading their cows down the hill into the valley. There were probably about 50 cows lazily wandering down the road. This is a fall tradition in Switzerland that they move the cows from the mountains into the low lands ( they move them up in the mountains in the spring ). I just had no idea that they did it in Mogelsberg. Woohoo, country living!

So here is where the fun begins. I’m on my bike , heading down hill in the same direction as the cows, and there is a car in front of me. I’m guessing that this guy was in a bit of a rush and wasn’t too happy about having to have this herd of cows add about 20 minutes to his drive. So the guy tries to drive through the cows ( hello, smart guy! ) Well, the farmer lady was not too pleased with someone trying to run over their cows ( and there was no way he was actually going to make it through anyways ). So she runs over, bangs on his hood and says “warten! du arschloch!! (wait you asshole!!)” and then proceeds to call him an asshole for the next 5 minutes. I was just crying laughing.