During a New Year’s visit, the hostess started talking about the usefulness and necessity of the emergency packages. The government didn’t write to us for nothing, right? And Rutte’s words had given her all the corona vibes. What did I find as an active participant in the media and entertainment industry? Had the celebrities I knew taken precautions? I, apparently happy to be able to contribute to this group conversation, started talking about the epic shopping visit with the eldest daughter during which we filled several shopping carts with water and cans in the Vomar. And how we then arranged the loot in the crawl space.
“Soup too?” she asked.
“Right, soup,” I replied in a tone as if it were a Secret tip concerned. “Soup contains everything, you just shouldn’t eat the same one too often.”
The eldest daughter: “We have pea soup, mushroom soup and cat food. And a flashlight and dad also wanted a big knife to keep other people away.”
I hastened to say that was my famous sense of humor.
She turned to her partner, my friend.
“You see, everyone has an emergency kit. Even him.”
“She,” I corrected, because I had mainly done it for my wife and children. I saw him looking at me reproachfully, I always distorted the truth, why couldn’t I just say a little white lie now?
“Oh well,” said my friend a little later, “there will never be a war!”
It was not the first time in my life that a major power started a war somewhere for dubious reasons
Less than a day later, the US invaded Venezuela. I like to be proven right, but the kidnapping of President Maduro came too quickly to send a message.
Good thing, too.
A few hours later the situation far away had already become accustomed. It was not the first time in my life that a major power started a war somewhere for dubious reasons. In the polder, the well-known opinion makers simmered for a while, but the consequences seem to be not too bad. We don’t need soup any time soon. If the regime change in Tehran, the annexation of Taiwan by China, that of Greenland by the US and the Donbas by Putin and the imposed peace in Gaza, even so peacefully, only domestic problems will remain. If our stock needs to be replaced due to the expiration date, we call in my sister. He lives in Groesbeek and can go shopping just across the border, which saves half.
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