I understand Calvin’s dad perfectly well. I have a record of walking out of the grocery without having bought for example yoghurt because I couldn’t cope with the choices. (Obviously, Germany is no difference from the US in this respect.)
A friend of ours moved to Denmark a couple of years ago and says she was relieved. One brand of yoghurt, not that many flavors, so your worst decision was “small package or family size” or “strawberry or raspberry”?
@ orinoco womble: It isn’t that simple. Here in Berlin, we are right now one hour ahead of solar time (daylight saving time), in winter it’s nearly perfect as we are sitting on 13° E. It may be different for France – the French have moved from GMT to Central European Time (forcibly in 1940, but they have stuck to it). Considering that the West of France (Brittany) is even to the West of Greenwich and Paris just 2° E, this means that they are in winter more than one hour ahead of solar time. The same holds for Spain, Galicia is even further West than Brittany.
Poland, on the other hand, uses Central European Time as well. That means that their Eastern border is roughly 40 min. behind solar time.
I understand Calvin’s dad perfectly well. I have a record of walking out of the grocery without having bought for example yoghurt because I couldn’t cope with the choices. (Obviously, Germany is no difference from the US in this respect.)
A friend of ours moved to Denmark a couple of years ago and says she was relieved. One brand of yoghurt, not that many flavors, so your worst decision was “small package or family size” or “strawberry or raspberry”?