Humor Footnote

 I should detail this story from last night's public forum on ARD (Hart Aber Fair), which might make a non-German laugh.

It was a public forum which concerned energy and touched on a number of subjects.  

One of these subjects goes back to a comment by the Baden-Wurttemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, who remarked in the past week...that maybe we ought to take just one bath a week (to save energy) and just use a wash-cloth for the other six days.

This comment came.  

There were a few comments about this wash-cloth idea.....then the SPD General Secretary (Kevin Kühnert) had offered up a comment.

I respect Kühnert, but about every third thing he says....is a bit funny to consider.  

So  Kühnert says it's just 'weird, when people making five-digit monthly income want to fall all over themselves explaining to people how to save money'.

I sat there this morning contemplating this wash-cloth thing once again.  I expect by November....some public TV network will make this a big deal....that everyone ought to cease using hot water for bathing or limit their bathing actions.  

I should also note this....at the beginning of this week....some landlord in Germany sent a note out....by such-and-such date, he was ceasing hot-water throughout the building.  Course, that got everyone in the building hyped-up.  The reason....he said that the bill (which would arrive in the spring of 2023)....would be so outrageous that his tenants would not be able to pay it.  He had a valid point, but the city officials pulled out the national 'standard' for apartment rental, and hot water is listed.  So he couldn't turn it off.  He'll just wait till spring and the shock starts to fall into play.

I should note....the national standard 'rules' say you can limit hot water to certain times of the day, and most folks are applying that rule.