You may be American in there, but European in here
That’s a joke this colleague of mine told me one time on his way to the can. Funny, huh. Anyway, Saturday is errand and chore day. So that means you work Monday through Friday, you do errand and chores on Saturday and on Sunday, you HOPEFULLY rest. Now that the entire European Union is facing collapse because of the Greek way of life vs the German way of life, I wonder if so goes the 30 hour work weeks, pensions, and long unemployment periods with free money coming in? Because damn it, I was hoping we were going to move to be more like the Europeans, but now it seems the Europeans are going to move to be more like the Americans.
So let’s just put aside the fact that Europeans are scared to death of drafts, and perish the thought of keeping on a sweaty shirt – IT’S WET, TAKE IT OFF! Another thing about the Euro-American divide is the belief that Americans kick their children to the curb when they’re 18 and put their parents in nursing homes. I was speaking with a European woman the other day and she asked how the visit with mom is going and I said it’s testing. She said, “I’d kill myself if my mother came to live with me.” I said well I thought it was the international way – my aunt took care of her father, her mother, her brothers etc. She was always wiping someone’s butt. My friend said, “My mother had her mother in the house and they fought every day.”
Maybe we’re all the same – we want to kick our kids to the curb after high school, we want someone else to wipe our aged parents’ butts, we want to work less, starting at 30 hours a week – but whatyagonnado? No matter where you live, it’s life. [In case you don’t speak Croatian, here’s Tin wanting to leap in the bayou and grandma preventing him and then reprimanding Mama that he is too close to the water {read: it’s wet in there).]