Breaking the cupboard
At the party we went to Saturday night, Joanna and I tried to convince a charming mathematician to send his coal to Angela. He was working for Gaz de France though, and they also try to bring coal plants to Germany these days. So that was an akward political moment.
But the mathematician did share an interesting story with us. He had interned at the German foreign ministry. There was a giant cupboad in his office and so he asked his boss: What`s in the cupboard? The boss said: That’s where we keep all the postcards for saving the whales. And it turned out the cupboard was full with the postcards demanding an end to whaling. So if anybody has been wondering why we want to send big packets of charcoal: So that they can’t store our complaints in some stupid cupboard.
