The truth about the Dutch

 

(Dit is een kopie van het stukje dat ik op Elswhere zette)

 

It's always a pleasure to read someting about your home country in a foreign newspaper.

Today my son sent me this: The article

"In winter months, skating is a sensible form of transportation, as commuters skate along frozen canals to visit family or friends who live many villages away. Much of the country sits below sea level, so it’s fr...equently not a particularly arduous journey to travel by skates.
The Dutch begin wearing skates as toddlers, so for some, skating is as common as walking. Some travel for hours and hours on their skates and see nothing strange about it."

What a top story!!

What a skilled journalist!

***

Step by step Americans are learning more and more about the Netherlands.

 

Here's what they already know:

We live in windmills and walk on wooden shoes.

Kopenhagen is our capital.

Men do their daily business in the red light district.

We smoke pot.

We only eat cheese.

All Dutch are socialists.

We kill old people and unborn babies.

.........

I heard that Americans have guns and that there have been "thirteen school shootings recorded in first six weeks of 2014."

But ofcourse, THIS is ridiculous.

****