2008/07/11 Zurich
Dream
Work
My godson and his mother were waiting for me at Zurich airport.
“What are you going to do this afternoon?” my godson asked.
“I have to work,” I said. “I have to learn how to sell coffee, wine, beer, croissants and sausages on trains.”
Then I had to laugh. While explaining this endeavor to a child it became suddenly extremely funny.
His mother said: “Your life is a boy’s dream.”
That’s definitely one way of looking at it.
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Dressed to kill.
Your uniform only is worth a good tip!
Your uniform only is worth a good tip!
shawshank redemption
There is a point where you should decide wether you go on living or start dying. Everything that feels like starting or going on living feels like a boy's dream. Lots of people experience their job as a deadendtrack.I think it may appear a boy's dream, but in a way it's just clean prostitution. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's hardly a dream. Allthough I must admit that I'd like to live it as well.
Dens
Prostitution is of course quite a lot of things, and also often an apt metaphor, but to say that working in a dining car is “clean prostitution” seems to me that you must have forgotten for a second or two what prostitution actually is.Two Beers, a cola, a Fanta light, a coffee, a tea citron, a hot chocolate, three bags of paprika chips, two hard boiled eggs, a Spa red and a cognac, and have one yourself. Prosit!
I take it you do this kind of work to gain experience concerning a certain object (although, if I'm not mistaken, you have quite some experience in this field) it is giving your body to something voluntarily. Lots of people do it, but unconscious about doing so. It's like girls who fall in love easily with the guy that plays well enough. It's all prostitution to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And I am a big fan of your costume, or is it a uniform. The shirt looks of decent quality. I might add that I 'm a big fan of evacuationplans and think every house should have one;
Dens
I tend to give my body or at least part of it voluntarily to other people.Does this make me a prostitute?
No, it doesn't, but it is a way of prostitution, be it not in change or trades, just knowledge.
Thank you, Noa Fengena, It was marvelous.
@Dens you're welcome. I guessed you would love it. I had actually wanted to say "@Dens, the dream-boy, see this film" but didn't dare be so forward. By the way: please stay just as you are. Cynicism is an ugly trait that comes with age for the naieve.
I read it as such. You're a good writer, noa.
@Dens, what a gift you just gave me - I thank you.
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