Want my autograph?
Posted on Donnerstag, November 20, 2008 at 8:36 AM by rhukari@rolmail.net"title="Send email to Reka the site author">Reka
I have been published! Now, don't get too excited, it's not that important. But I really didn't think it would happen.
Eduard commutes a total of about 100km (62mi) a day, going to work in the morning and afternoon, returning home at lunch and in the evening. On his way home recently, he noticed a new mileage sign along his route. Huge, brand new and yet unblemished, they had written our village name wrong! I set off the next day to take a picture of it and send it in to the local newspaper, the Dolomiten (Circulation ca. 55,000 and the main German language newspaper in our area; see very interesting history). A few days passed with no answer or result. Then today, TA-DA!!! There it was on our district's page along with my photo! I read the newspaper online, and when I saw it, I started whooping. The kids, who were eating breakfast, thought I had finally hit the point of mental no return! (Which, I am sure, they await daily!)
The text says:
Margreid with a "d"
Margreid - Margreid is a village name which is often spelled wrong. "Magreid, Margreit, Magreit ... we are already used to that; but that the public works department can't even write correctly is a sad situation", writes "Dolomiten" Reporter Reka Hukari Ranigler, who photographed the large, brand-new street sign on the Wine Road shortly after Lake Caldaro.
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