A long, long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away or I can still remember, take your pick) the people of the city of Cologne lived a charmed life. You see, the people of Cologne have always been a lazy crew and have never enjoyed working. In this ancient time, the people of Cologne didn't have to work. They were free to spend their days and nights partying and drinking beer in the numerous beer houses around the city.
The Cologners were able to get away with such a life style because there was a group of dwarfs that lived near by. Every night the dwarfs would come out and would do all the work the the people of Cologne were supposed to have accomplished that day. When the inhabitants of Cologne would wake up the next day they would find everything on their to-do list finished and would celebrate the whole day long.
One day a curious girl decided that she wanted to meet these dwarfs and thank them for all the hard work that they do. That night, after everyone else in the city was asleep, the girl lit a lamp and went out into the city to find the dwarfs.
The dwarfs are very shy though and they did not want to be found. They heard the girl coming, and they saw her lamp and they scurried away. The girl wasn't able to find the dwarfs so she went back to sleep.
The next day when all the residents of Cologne woke up they found that there work wasn't done. Instead of partying like they were used to, they all had to work. From that day on the dwarfs have never returned to Cologne because they are afraid of the girl who wanted to discover them. And to this day the people of Cologne are known as lazy all over Germany.
Hearing this on our city tour was pretty funny because on one of the first days here one of the Zivi's told us that the people of Cologne were a bunch of lazy bums who only work enough to make enough money to buy beer. We thought that he was just prejudiced because he was from a different area of Germany. But then our tour guide told us this legend.
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