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#70: festinate

8/18/2015

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quick, open the gate
hurry hurry don't be late
please, do, festinate !
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"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!" — Lewis Carroll

This quote goes way back to my childhood. I can hear my Dad saying it. He had a gift for making up words and phrases, like "lobos on the kabobos" for when he was tired of driving or sitting too much. While I was living in Germany, this idea became "auto buns" when my folks came to visit, driving through France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and a good part of Germany. 

During this trip it also signaled that it was time to find a Konditorei for pastry and coffee... for him a heisse schokolade became his new favorite thing. How nice it is to slow down, sit and sip on coffee and watch the clouds roll by. 

DEFINITION of this 3-syllable verb:
  1. to hurry; hasten.
  2. hurried.
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