[Buddha-l] David Loy, catering and shaggy dog stories

[Timothy Smith]

In 1966, just after leaving high-school, I travelled to Spain (to be  
the next great American flamenco guitarist*) via ship from Los  
Angeles.  My D-Deck companions were an elderly Scots coal miner with  
a great sense of humor and a thirst to match it, and a young,  
boisterous, German businessman named Guenther  heading home from some  
place the ship had been between London  and LA.  We called at Curaçao  
for a day on our way through the Caribbean.  I remember being in a  
shop with him as he blustered around.  He said something to the   
Dutch shopkeeper who went instantly ballistic, screaming  in a combo  
of english and dutch "get out of my shop you goddamned Nazi!"   It  
was my first experience with anything like that, having grown up in  
So. Cal and not ever been abroad.  I was shocked and dismayed, yet  
even then recognized my own prejudices against 'germanic accents'.   
Guenther was as thoroughly deflated as any person I've ever known.   
Buddhist content:  Karma, ignorance, hatred, etc.

*Didn't happen

T
Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates

www.wheelwrightassoc.com



On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:

> Dan Lusthaus schreef:
>>> "kaasbrood" strikes me as a bit odd though. Usually it is or was  
>>> called
>>>
>> "broodje kaas",
>>
>> Now that is interesting, since the menu had two types of kaas  
>> brood, "old"
>> and "young" (I don't remember the Dutch spelling ...), which  
>> apparently
>> indicated how long the cheese was aged or how sharp it was. I  
>> chose the
>> "old" kaas brood, and it was very tasty. The bread was not a roll,  
>> nor a
>> baguette, but rather thickly sliced broad bread, similar to  
>> Italian bread.
> Off course, being a country with 200 different kinds of  
> protestantism and one kind of chees we Dutch take cheese very  
> seriously and we have ' jong' (4 weeks), ' belegen' (6 months) and  
> 'oud' (a year or more).
>> My wife's theory on why the waitress was nonresponsive to Käsebrot  
>> is not
>> that she didn't understand it, but rather that she didn't want to  
>> make any
>> concessions to someone who might be German. I have no idea whether  
>> her
>> theory has any merit...
>>
> An other possiblility was that the waitress was thinking about how  
> much she would overcharge you. Elderly people, who can remember the  
> 2nd WW tend to over charge every German tourist. Younger people  
> only overcharge people who mess up the composita. The Buddha was  
> never overcharged while stayting in Holland, because he knew his  
> composita. This gave the Dutch so much good karma that they excell  
> in soccer.
>
>
> Erik
>
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