Hey Lad...

It wasn’t exactly what he said, but that was the gist of it. Are you looking for something? Yes, I was looking for the bus stop that AI said was opposite the HEMA. But AE was wrong: that bus stop was closed down years ago. It’s quite a long walk. The person who’s spoken to me clearly seems a bit shy about something. A chat?
I’m offered a drink and invited to admire his home. Oh well, why not. We chat a bit about the decline in IQ, how often AI gets it wrong, and what the Pope has said. He wants to know what I think of the Pope’s statement. I’m not particularly keen on the Pope, nor on his predecessors, even though this one is supposedly modern. Over the years I’ve heard plenty of strange statements, and what am I to make of a Pope who’s against AI, yet blithely claims that Christians and terrorist Muslims can live together in peace?
Of course we can live together in peace, but not when terrorism is involved and no respect whatsoever is shown towards the host country and its inhabitants. X is full of it again: the vandalism at football matches, men accosting women or children and pushing them over or hitting them... And every time I find myself thinking: where are the police? I also think this is all deliberate. How often is one of the safest countries in the world, China, held up as an example of a surveillance state? This is something the EU is only too keen on: control over everything.
I don’t say it, but I do think it, and before I know it I get the comment that he watches porn and whether there’s anything wrong with that. As if I care how he spends his time. And of course, after a comment about him being German and people saying: ‘There are those Germans again with their Nazi mentality’ (as if anyone in the Netherlands still loses sleep over that), the man asks me, after touching me, if he’s allowed to touch me.
That path, I’m not up for that.
It’s time to leave; I’ve still got a long journey ahead of me. It’s clear that the Lord has some strange creatures, as my grandmother always used to say when she was confronted with oddballs.

Incidentally, AI, Google Maps and the NS were all three wrong when it came to my return journey. All three made me travel back and forth unnecessarily instead of suggesting the shortest and cheapest route. That bus to Central Station wasn’t needed. That’s what you get when you don’t know your way around somewhere; you get ripped off and fleeced right in front of you.

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2-5-2026}