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Poles’ Wry Humor Highlights Impractical Everyday Life
In Szczecin and across western Poland travelers find humor in inefficiency. A hotel receptionist is a “guardian angel” reachable by dial 10 but now 11, a pants press delivers three creases per leg, and a breadless town briefly renamed to promise wheat. Zgorzelec women reportedly scold drunken husbands, Arkadia serves hamburgers as steaks, and Wroclaw’s beer and wine swap confounds patrons as a stair-stepped, slanting ten-story house rattles nerves.
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