I forgot to mention - because I have done this already and I normally don´t think about this at all: look, it´s entirely not an English/German thing, it has nothing to do with racism or nationalism, neither on my part, nor did I ever had the feeling they would do this to me just just because I am foreigner or especially a German (no one had any resentments about that, though I had talks about the war now and then, but it is long time now). Though of course a local guy in good terms with the HCO would not have had the same trouble, but this is another thing.
So don´t you be thinking this guy is letting it out on us, he came to England, already p.issed off, because of things that had happened to him and then he thinks, why, the English are a rather high-nosed lot, so I pick a fight, why don´t I.
If you think so you are wrong and if you keep thinking this I don´t care, it´s your problem, well, I had a lot of rage from the Englisch let out on me, not because I was German, but a cab-driver, all these guy yelling, pointing the finger and honking, "you think you own the road, mate", never did this happen to me in Germany or Zurich, in Zurich least of all, Swiss people ar still rather nice (in comparison) and have good manners.
Of course I preferred it to have happened in Germany, for it would make things easier and people might not be confused, but think of it as England´s privilege and curse at the same time, English as world language - as people would come to England, in the first place, because English is world language (I did so), moreover, people will tend to make things public more likely that happened in England, than in their home country, well, because then it´s, rightaway, a global thing, which can be shared globally.
So what happened, happened and couldn´t have happened any other way. (That´s a Matrix quote, btw., Morpheus said that)
_________________ Jochen Lembke, Europe´s cab-driving writer and author of the best Hitch-hiker´s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-volume-six ever written. Or else money back (haha.)
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