Guests
Wim
What they say
Coming in: "Good day! I am a pancake. No. I WANT a pancake."
Pleased: "Lekker! That is Dutch for: I will tell my whole village."
So-so: "It is... 'correct'? Page forty-one."
Disappointed: "My book says: 'It is raining'. I think that is the right phrase."
How they order
Wim has 6 written orders of their own. A few of them:
"I would like the 'beurre' and the... (flips pages) 'yellow smile fruit'. Made like a rolled-up map, please."
— that is La Banane Dorée
"The sour yellow ball with the sweet sand. In the shape of... (draws in the air) a tent?"
— that is La Citronnette
"The one with everything: pig, cheese, chicken-before-chicken. Closed like a window with four shutters."
— that is La Complète
After the first ten days they also make up orders in their own voice. Not sure? Ask "Pardon?" or "What do you mean?": see orders.
Crêpes they love
Their face is on those pages of the notebook.
Presents from the pedlar
From Yann the pedlar's cart: a bigger phrasebook and a map of the quarter.
Friendship and presents
Spoiler What Wim brings as you become friends
As you become friends:
- A regular: "My book has a new word today: 'regular'. That is me!"
- A friend: "My book says 'habitué'. I say it in the mirror. Habitué!"
- A dear friend: "I write home: I am not lost. I am at the crêperie."
- Family: "Home asks when I return. I say: after the next crêpe. Always."
A present at a regular: Wim has brought a jar of speculoos from home, and a napkin with a drawing.
From a whole street: One sugar pearl, in an envelope with eleven signatures and a drawing of you.