The actions of the elderly lady stood out. Several festival goers made videos of the water festival. Gorter-Van Leeuwen had not yet realized that thousands of people responded to this. “In the city they also said: how nice, how nice. But that I have thousands of people as a fan? Not that,” she smiles.
On the videos it seems as if the water in the guns was not running out. “I certainly got help. People filled them and then I got them again. And a woman came with a tub and then I could fill them again.”
She finds it the most normal thing in the world that Gorter-Van Leeuwen gave the 92nd edition of the TT some extra cheer by going out and about. “I walk step by step, but I will get there. I have to rest now and then, but just keep going,” she concludes combatively.