We lived one time in Germany and rented an apartment there with a local very active grandmother. Her activity was manifested in very frequent visits without notice. I don’t remember it at all, but two cases stuck in my head.

1st There were very stupid clocks in the apartment. No, they are of course beautiful, old all things, but, infection, they were very loud. Imagine every hour, first a boom-boom, and then another cocoon climbs to roar. After the first night, you could boldly open the brick factory. We stopped them. The housewife asks why the clock does not work. We say that loud, sleep interferes. She replied, “Well what? Get used to it, it’s the old clock, they have to walk!” Upon our request to take away these old watches, he answered, “Why are they for me? “They are loud, they are loud.”

2nd It comes one day and from the threshold let all the devices turn off from the rotor. We stand and wait for the answer to our question. It turns out, "I do your best, because the devices consume a lot of electricity, you will pay less" After this incident, our natural politeness disappeared, and the woman began to come in much less often and on the call.