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Oh, but my husband was such a shopkeeper, alas!, I didn’t know that until I realized it. Once my husband had to do one-month military service, and it was only then that I found out what kind of merchant he was. He was that kind of shopkeeper, that he ordered the flour, poured it [in the storage vessel], and when it was sold out, he gave a phone call only then to order [more].
When I took over the shop, I was checking that we didn’t have this, we didn’t have that. I realized only then that he thought he should order when he was out of stock. When he came home I told him: ‘What’s this, my dear? You are selling, and you always must have one more portion at hand. In the case of flour, two more sacks of it.’ He wasn’t a good shopkeeper, oh no.
My husband would have been great in one thing: he had a beautiful, marvelous voice, he had an absolute, secure ear for music. This was his only talent, he could have been prominent with that, famous and well-known. If he became a singer, if we lived in Hungary, he would have run rings around all of them [every singer].
When I took over the shop, I was checking that we didn’t have this, we didn’t have that. I realized only then that he thought he should order when he was out of stock. When he came home I told him: ‘What’s this, my dear? You are selling, and you always must have one more portion at hand. In the case of flour, two more sacks of it.’ He wasn’t a good shopkeeper, oh no.
My husband would have been great in one thing: he had a beautiful, marvelous voice, he had an absolute, secure ear for music. This was his only talent, he could have been prominent with that, famous and well-known. If he became a singer, if we lived in Hungary, he would have run rings around all of them [every singer].
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Romania
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Alice Kosa