Arnon Grunberg

Gesindel

Riffraff

I had invited three friends to come to my mother’s house for tea and cake.
“When is the riffraff coming exactly?” my mother asked.
(My mother used the German word “Gesindel”.)
She told me: “When they greet me I will answer: ‘Hello, riffraff off the street.’”

She was in a good mood today.