Playing Days (2015)
“He had promised us the night off, to let us rest, but changed his mind after the morning session. So we spent the early evening walking through our sets in street clothes. This was followed by a compulsory appearance at what Henkel called the team sauna – a low dank room carved out of the steam tunnels, with rubber flooring and an atmosphere that smelt oppressively of peeling paint.
The sauna itself was nothing more than a kind of broad porcelain urinal set into the floor. A trickle of lukewarm... water ran along the basin of it, which could be augmented by a single black hose. Olaf refused to undress. He stooped under the low underground ceiling with his gym bag strapped across his back and watched us disdainfully.
‘Markovits, Markovits,’ he said, as I dipped a skinny foot into the water, ‘Du bist auch so einer.’ You’re as bad as they are.
The rest of us settled back more or less uncomfortably – the porcelain ribs dug into our rear ends, already sore from running. Henkel himself undressed in short quick movements.MoreLess
The sauna itself was nothing more than a kind of broad porcelain urinal set into the floor. A trickle of lukewarm... water ran along the basin of it, which could be augmented by a single black hose. Olaf refused to undress. He stooped under the low underground ceiling with his gym bag strapped across his back and watched us disdainfully.
‘Markovits, Markovits,’ he said, as I dipped a skinny foot into the water, ‘Du bist auch so einer.’ You’re as bad as they are.
The rest of us settled back more or less uncomfortably – the porcelain ribs dug into our rear ends, already sore from running. Henkel himself undressed in short quick movements.MoreLess
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