Looking For A Yellow Van In Eisenberg.

The lure of books was just too great to wait.

The only items we do order from the Amazon giant are books. Monday was the day we placed our order, which in itself is not easy as the choices are endless, and straightaway we were told that they would arrive on Thursday, today. Like children we had been counting sleeps and were planning our day around the arrival of these books.

For a while we've been needing to get more light bulbs but as they are so ' green ', they are a pain to replace. Hardly any shop carries them, so Bob wanted to run through to Güssing this morning. But, we also wanted those books; Mohammed won't come to the mountain than the mountain will come to him...I have more or less memorized our postman's route and his routine, so at a quarter to eleven The Bobster and I were driving up and down the various side roads of Eisenberg but to no avail. Where on earth was he? A cup of coffee somewhere or had we been driving parallel to him?

Bob was getting impatient so we stopped at Kainz's ( a place where the postman definitely stops during lunch ) and asked if they knew where the postman was as well as telling our woe to old lady Kainz. She, was quick and astute:

" When he comes in at lunchtime, I'll ask him to leave the parcel for you here in the shop. "

Still a bit undecided we chose to drive home ( via all roads ! ) and wait until after two before going shopping. With each and every car that drove past our house I chased Bob outside to see if it was the man in yellow, but no luck.

When we left at half past two, we planned to drop in at Kainz's to see if a parcel was there but on the way we spotted the yellow van. Yeah!!! We double parked behind him, I jumped out to run towards him when he grinned, waved and shouted:

" Hi, I already left your parcel at Kainz's. It is waiting for you. "

Oh, I was so happy I did a little dance of joy, thanked him profusely and skipped back into the car to tell Bob. Both grinning from ear to ear we drove to pick up our parcel, thanking old lady Kainz a few times over and drove off shopping while dreaming of delving into the adventures contained within our new books.

Biggi