This guy (and the many guys like him) collect scrap metal. They visit every village periodically, and according to Leah you can also call them (though I'm not sure who "they" are) to come pick up some scrap if you're doing a project or something. They take it off your hands for you and make themselves a little money by turning it in.
The best part about the "clangerman", as Leah and her boys call him, is that he drives really slow through your German village and rings a big bell as he goes down the road.
The Germans must have the clangerman schedule or something because I have no idea what is going on with these guys... they come down my street at the most random times and sometimes I'll see three different trucks in a week and sometimes it will seem like three weeks before we hear the bells.
If I had any scrap metal to deliver to said clangerman, I would just have to shout out my window to the truck as it approached the house and they'd help me load it up and be on their merry way!
Ding... ding... ding...
don't feel to bad for them, scrap metals in Europe are going from 220.00 ero to over 3000.00 euro per ton, depending on the type of metal.
ReplyDeleteWow! So they don't do too bad for just driving slowly around town ringing their bell!
Deleteohhhhhh!!!! This is what Easton was saying that day.... I couldn't for the life of me understand what he was talking about when we saw the "clangerman" that day at your house. This make so much more sense now! thanks J!
ReplyDeleteYeah he obviously has a name in German but I like what Leah and the boys call him!
DeleteSounds like something you'd say to scare your children (if you were really mean). "Be good or the Clangerman will come and get you!"
ReplyDeleteHaha awesome... "SHHHHH Lily I hear the Clangerman's bells. You don't want him to come get you, do you?" Bahahaha
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