Reader’s letter This is a debate entry, written by an external contributor. The post expresses the writer’s views.
The queue at the sausage kiosk is getting longer. Before we know it, Skibladner will announce his arrival out in the sea gap…
A long, horse wool will soon make it bubble and tingle in summer-warm bodies. Soon you will be standing there in the kiosk queue with 64 others ahead of you.
You just have to see how long it takes to buy that ice cream and soda, you think… they’re waiting for you, you glance out at the benches, oh my god… the hunger is coming out of their eyes… You just have to reach Skibladner ‘n before it turns and turns its nose out again…
The queue in front of you isn’t moving…queues move very slowly on the Hedmarken…you’re probably one of the last to be dispatched this day…can you really wait any longer, do you think…you’re clingy and tired , you wipe your forehead… then it happens that someone in front of you in the queue loses patience and gives up their place…
At express train speed you order two specials, two of each, one with mustard and ketchup, one just with mustard … did you have shrimp salad, you said? Yes, then I’ll take it on one, not on the other … also pocket money on one, not on the other … also I’ll have three crown ice cream and three bottles of Fanta, don’t you have Fanta? … Then I can take something else … yes, put it in a bag, please. Throw in a couple of napkins and.
The sound of Skibladners cascading paddlewheels irrevocably end the trade … With your arms full, you rush out into the busy wharf road… oops!! … it was only just , no, no, I’m fine, just drive on you … one of the sticky krone ice creams slips out of the paper bag and onto the ground … while you bend down, a pops of the Børresen sausages out of the ketchup with a swipe …
There, there Skibladner glides in to dock! I rush out to the others…hey, hey, here I come! … Grandma, what happened to Grandma! … is she still at the kiosk?!…
Last Sunday, Hamar got a taste of summer! There was a rush of traffic on the pier and the benches around the kiosk. A naturally relaxed and un-logged procession of people between the sausage kiosk and the Skibladner pier deserved an absence of traffic.
Cars, motorbikes and speed-loving cyclists whiz past unimpeded. This is neither environmentally friendly nor sustainable, Hamar. The municipality must urgently protect the soft road users with a wide pedestrian lane between the kiosk and the jetty. Ideally, the municipality should redirect the heaviest traffic.
Sees that visitors to the “Mjøsfronten” are protected by a wide and raised pedestrian crossing when they have to cross the jetty road. It’s really great! Why doesn’t the municipality confirm the brewing life in the same way?
