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Last week I was staying at the very nice Admiral Hotel<\/a>, located near the riverside in Copenhagen. Like most hotel breakfasts, theirs was a buffer complete with a four slice toaster. I thought it’d be nice to have a single slice of toast with my breakfast, proceeding to put a single slice into the toaster before wandering off to add a few other items to my plate. <\/p>\n

I sat down, watching from afar, waiting for the toast to pop when I saw another guy put some bread into the toaster. Thinking nothing of it, he waited for the toaster to pop and proceed to take both<\/strong> slices of bread, including mine<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure what he was thinking but I certainly found it strange. At least there wasn’t any shortage of bread to toast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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