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Saturday, May 5, 2007

living by the rules to the extreme?


Written the next bit in seventies, see part II below. Part I is deeper down.
They may be big on 'green' over here, I'm beginning to have some doubts about the 'law-abiding-follow-the-rules' attitude. It's beginning to get on my nerves. Yesterday I wasn't able to cash the check my former rental agency issued as a rebate, because the signing didn't look exactly like on their computer. And today I was refused entry to the library. Not because of the coffee, you're allowed to take that with you, but because I did not have it capped with a plastic lid.. And here I was thinking I did my bit for the environment by leaving it off..

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that thing about living by the rules is very recognisable! I don't know if it's the anglo-saxon part that some Canadians must have in them, but if you spend some time in England you will notice all the same things. I was once refused entry to a toilet in a bar because I was wearing a coat...