We celebrated our six-year-old son’s birthday party in the playground and we walk back to the parking lot.
One of his friends comes walking next to me. I can see from his attitude that he really wants to tell me something.
“Sir, are you a thief?”
“No,” I answer, “why do you ask?”
“We got a burglar alarm and I know the code: 6237.”
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A version of this article also appeared in NRC Handelsblad on 12 February 2022
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of February 12, 2022