The truth: Red down jacket meets beautiful hairstyle

A newsworthy incident recently occurred in Bremen. On a Friday around 2:25 p.m., a woman in a red down jacket rode her bicycle southeast along Hollerallee. She used the bike path. When she was approximately at the level of the registry office, she noticed a man coming toward her on a bicycle about 50 meters away. He was driving on the cycle path towards the northwest, contrary to the intended direction of travel. The woman continued her journey without any concerns. She expected the man to move onto the adjacent sidewalk.

The man also thought the same about the woman in the red down jacket. Both cyclists were still about 25 meters apart when the woman in the red down jacket decided to move onto the sidewalk. At the same moment, the man made the appropriate decision so that they were now walking towards each other on the sidewalk.

Instinctively they both slowed down. The man decided to stay on the sidewalk until the woman moved out of the way. But since the woman also thought the same, they stayed on the same track. When they were only ten meters apart, both of them steered back onto the bike path, then back onto the sidewalk and onto the bike path again. They had to brake and were now directly opposite each other. At that moment, the woman with the red down jacket noticed that the man had a nice hairstyle.

The woman decided to wait in silence until the man got back on his bike and passed her on the sidewalk. But the man with the beautiful hairstyle also decided to do so at the same moment. They waited. Finally he said: “Feel free to drive past me on the side!”

But at the same moment the woman decided to ask the man to drive off. “Feel free to drive past me on the side!” she said. As a result of the request that was made at the same time, both of them had to laugh at the same time, with the woman laughing a rather dark laugh, but the man laughing a bright, almost shrill laugh.

After about eleven seconds of laughter, which slowly became quieter, they both said at the same time: “Drive!” What followed was the following sequence of requests, which were uttered simultaneously and in exactly the same rhythm by the woman with the red down jacket and by the man with the beautiful hairstyle, as if they were speaking with a single voice: "Please, drive! - Good, then please stop and I'll drive past you. - Me? - You? - I meant you. -So I do. - Please, drive!"

This conversation also led to no result. They both parked their bikes and sat on the ground. That also happened at the same moment. After some thought, the woman began to crawl very slowly past the parked bikes. But the man had also decided to do so, and so the two of them crawled away at the same moment and soon collided with their foreheads.

They had both expected that the other would slow down or take evasive action. In fact, at the same moment they decided to crawl over the other person. Therefore, there was an upward movement on both sides, which led to a simultaneous, slow straightening until they were face to face, forehead to forehead, chest to chest, hip to hip, knee to knee, foot to foot. They could feel each other's breath, which wasn't the worst thing since both had brushed their teeth just before.

Several attempts to evade followed, first towards the front of the house, then towards the street, first a side step, then three quick side steps in a row. Since the woman with the red down jacket and the man with the beautiful hairstyle took all the steps at the same moment, they remained at the same distance from each other.

Once again, the woman decided to solve the problem through communication. The man made the same decision at the same moment. So they both said in unison: "It can't be that we can't pass each other..." When they realized that they were saying the same thing, they both stopped talking at the same time and waited exactly 27 seconds.

They then took a breath at the same time and noticed that the other person also wanted to start talking again. But both decided to talk until the other person stopped talking. “It can’t be that we can’t get past each other,” they said again and then continued talking for at least half an hour. They talked about the weather, about cycling, and later about sales tax and the war in Ukraine. They used exactly the same words and took breaths in the same places. Finally the woman said, “Okay, if we don’t find a solution, I’ll get my big sister.”

At the same moment the man announced that he was going to get his big brother. They both sat on the floor and called their siblings. They didn't move again until his brother and sister arrived at the agreed location, which happened at the same time. When the sister of the woman in the red jacket and the brother of the man with the nice haircut saw each other, they realized that they knew each other. They had worked in the same company in the late 1990s that produced foil lettering for gas stations.

They had a lot to tell each other since they hadn't seen each other for a long time. After a few hours they said goodbye. The brother took his brother's hand, the sister took her sister's hand, both of whom had sat in silence on the floor the entire time. They each grabbed the bike with their free hand.

The siblings then walked past each other, with the women walking along the wall of the house and the men along the street, which the siblings had previously agreed on without further ado. The woman with the red down jacket and the man with the beautiful hairstyle haven't seen each other since.