When horses ...

Have you ever seen horses vomit in front of pharmacies? No?  Precisely.  Horses are physically incapable of vomiting, and if they were, the chance of several horses vomiting together in front of not just one but several pharmacies, is quite remote.   This elegant German saying thus refers to the unlikeliness of something happening.  As in a conversation I might have had last year:
“Do you think you’ll ever move back to Germany?”
“Sure, when horses vomit in front of pharmacies.” 
Well, I did move back, and so far I’ve been able to jump the hurdles of this new obstacle course with relative ease.  Yet when I walk to work in the pre-dawn hours, I like to imagine the ubiquitous puddles of vomit are of equine rather than human origin.  It means I live in a country of infinite possibilities.     

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