You know you are getting old when the pilot is younger than you at Rotterdam, until now I have been spared but the next generation of pilots young and with full heads of hair are appearing on the scene. Since cadetship the pilot at each port was a fixture, a constant, respected, knowledgeable, now it’s a bunch of young lads…..I suppose I am just showing my age, they are just as good young as old.
I still have to pass the psychological barrier of 40 so I am still doing OK. I did a story the other day about how the Swedes advertise beer which was all very amusing. A 77 year old pensioner was not so amused when he was asked to show his ID card called “legitimation” when he was buying a few cans of lite beer, it turns out he was the chairman of his local pensioners organisation and the whole thing was brought to the national TV news and current affairs programmes. The store (ICA) where he was going to buy the lite beer had created a new rule where you show your ID to stop underage drinkers, how they reason that a 77 year old should have to show ID is beyond me. It was claimed that it stops people selling beer to underage drinkers? How? I wouldn’t mind but the Swedish state controls the sale of alcohol, you can only buy real beer and liquor from the state run “System Bolaget” unless you go to Denmark or Germany and buy it for half the price. You have to be 20 to buy alcohol from one of these state run shops, you have to be 18 to buy from a bar, you have to be 18 to vote. So you can vote at 18 and drink in a bar but not buy from the state run liquor store……..I know I don’t get it either, and you can import as much as you want on the net. So lite beer sellers are pissing against the wind of opinion and pissing people off as far as I can see.
The 77 year old refused to show his ID, and went to the next store and was served lite beer without discussion(another ICA).
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