{"id":20201,"date":"2026-01-30T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=20201"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:51:24","slug":"why-do-you-where-a-cheap-watch-hans-fallada-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/why-do-you-where-a-cheap-watch-hans-fallada-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch ? &#8211; Hans Fallada (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This small book brings together three short stories by Hans Fallada, a German writer from the first half of the twentieth century. The stories share a witty sense of humor and a keen eye for ordinary people. <em>Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?<\/em> tells the story of a watchmaker\u2019s son who keeps losing his beautiful watches and finally decides to wear a very cheap one instead. The second story follows the comic chaos between a schoolteacher and the local authorities over how to make motorists stop in their town. The final story portrays a young couple struggling to make ends meet in pre-war Germany. All three stories are charming and funny &#8211; a lovely discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Well, the upshot is that ever since then I&#8217;ve worn a two-eighty-five nickel watch, with a one-year guarantee.<br>I tell everyone perfectly truthfully that my father&#8217;s stingy. Or do you think he&#8217;s behaved well?<br>He simply won&#8217;t believe that my watch was stolen.<br>Won&#8217;t believe it. Now you say something!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Contents<\/strong><br>Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch ? \/ War Monument or Urinal \/ Fifty Marks and s Merry Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-colibri-color-4-color\">Translated form German<br>All stories taken from Tales from the Underworld, first published in English in 2014<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small book brings together three short stories by Hans Fallada, a German writer from the first half of the twentieth century. The stories share a witty sense of humor and a keen eye for ordinary people. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? tells the story of a watchmaker\u2019s son who keeps losing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[291,292,293],"tags":[47,98,173],"class_list":["post-20201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2026","category-challenge-abc-noms-de-famille-2025-2026","category-challenge-riquiqui-2026","tag-humour","tag-life","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/getty-images-249nW4UKy0k-unsplash-scaled-e1769956878655.jpg?fit=2342%2C1954&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20232,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20201\/revisions\/20232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}