Dutch Disco!
Have you seen the signs? All over shop counters and at kiosks? They're there if you look hard enough. If you can't see one, the Dutch person behind the counter will only be too delighted to point it out.
They tell you all the things that you can't do, have or get from your friendly Dutch service outlet. No change. No information. No credit. No tourist assistance. No stamps. No English. No clue.
What's even better is that if you ask a Dutchie for one of the forbidden fruits referred to in their charming signs, they point triumphantly at it. 'Look! It is not possshiboll to get change. It even shays sho!!!'
Combining two of their favourite things: (1) being unhelpful and (2) pointing instead of communicating, you will make a Dutchie's day by asking for something you can't have, and allowing them to point majestically at their sign, bursting with pride and satisfaction.
Depending on how many things you ask for, and the positioning of their friendly little signs, they can end up looking like demented disco dancers.
3 comments:
You have a point of course. It is very easy to pick out flaws with the Dutch and generalise them for amusing reading. However, maybe if you tried to find something positive to write about too rather than just dissing the dutch all the time? Have you actually spent any time with Dutch people in their homes? Do you speak Dutch at all? And why are you still here if all you can find is faults? I am English, and totally see where you are coming from but maybe a little more kindness and a little less of the cheap digs might not go amiss?
Anonymous - this is supposed to be an insight into the Dutch - and it's brilliant. Almost as good as The Office (but you probably didn't like that because it was unkind).
a blog praising the dutch would be incredibly boring.
In fact, here it is:
cheese
done.
happy?
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