Bathrooms

Heinrich had to go to the bathroom and got into a little bit of trouble. When he found the bathrooms the signs on the doors were in German. One said Herren and the other said Damen.

 

 

Since he can read he knew that one sounded like “Hers” and the other sounded like “the men”. So he went in the one named Damen. But a bunch of ladies started to yell at him. It seems that the word for mister is Herr and in German the plural is made by adding "en" instead of an “s” like in English. The formal word for woman is Dame so the plural is Damen. Made sense when he made the choice but boy was that embarrassing. He should have paid more attention to the pictures than to the words.