Oma anecdote

I visited my great-grandmother this week, in the little city where she's lived her whole life (98 years). Just like last week, we had a really nice time together, though this time she kept me a bit more busy with shopping and errands and cleaning and cooking--all of which I was more than happy to do, of course! In between she told me lots of stories, like usual. My Oma's a great story teller, I love listening to her.

As we finished eating our dinner (something with potatoes, no doubt), she fell a little quiet, so I thought I'd try prompting her to do some reminiscing and was really surprised at what...well, here's how it went.

Me: Oma, did you ever go to Bavaria?
Her: Bavaria? Of course! I've been all over!
Me: What did you do there?
Her: I danced!
Me: Ahaa! I've danced in Bavaria too!*
Her: Yeah, we went dancing. [sings a song that they must have danced to]...Yeah, it was nice, we had a lot of fun...
Me: Can you understand Bavarian? Me, I can't understand it at all. [The dialect they have there is crazy.**]
Her: What, like that Plattdeutsch? (Komm' mal rueber, ich will dir was sagen!)
Me: [DEER IN HEADLIGHTS]

Then my jaw just dropped and I absolutely laughed my head off.

Her: Did you understand?
Me: [Still laughing] Nope!
Her: "Come over here, I want to tell you something."
Me: Ohhhhhhh! [Still laughing] Oma, you're awesome.

Then she laughed at how amused I was, quoted some Bavarian a couple more times for fun, and went on to tell me another story (which one it was, I can't quite remember exactly).





*The instances of when I danced in Bavaria: at Oktoberfest and afterwards at a sports bar in Munich; and in Würzburg, at and after the Deichkind concert)


**I figured the Bavarian dialect needed a little bit of explaining, so I found some links so that y'all can hear the differences between High German (what I learn) and Bavarian.
English
High German
Bavarian