A woman orders a very exclusive whiskey for more than 500 euros in our liquor store. When she comes to pick it up I ask if it’s a present. “Yes,” she says. “For my husband.” I say that he will be very happy with such a present, and that it must be a special occasion to open it. “Open?” she says, „Not of his life. It goes in the closet and it never comes out!”
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A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of March 25, 2023