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Dances with wolves,... and rabbits

I had a Tatanka [1] moment when Håkan answered "No", after me asking if he spoke English. Luckily I have strong arms and legs so I had my questions with me in the truck of the car. Using tatanka body language I invited him to the car and showed him the question. It was a second hand grass-cutting machine that I just both and it needed a transmission belt to be changed. The question was if they had it in the store, where he obviously seemed to be employed. It looked as if Håkan had a really bad day or it just went bad since the moment I entered the store. His long sorrow face was expressing all shades of nagging. So I called Markus my neighbor on the phone and asked him to talk to Håkan hoping that his friendly voice and perfect Swedish would cheer him up. It seemed to have worked and helped Håkan pull his head out from his ass and start looking for the piece. Luckily he was not alone in the store and his colleague who at the beginning didn’t speak English started to