My country is a curious one if you look at political history. If our people are left alone, can argue with each other and spend time and resources on nonsense and bullshit, then we are complacent, loyal, hard-working and very inventive. However if you try to bind us with rules, our cleverness turns towards bending and working around them. Our loyalty can be lost with a single fuck-up and we are complacent until you wake up one day and entire country is on fire with no prior signs. We also often put our hardworking not towards our own benefit, but to detriment of those we do not like.
Our country for a while behaved like most democracies in the world - changing the ruling party each election. Because anyone is better than whoever is in power now, right? However a decade ago or so one right-wing corrupt to the bone party did the unthinkable, something you generally do not do if you get into politics. They kept a promise.
With this one promise they won completely, not by making a promise but by actually delivering on it. And they were in power for many years, winning election after election. Good will and trust of the people was bought by keeping one promise, nothing more. In fact in the last election they still got the most votes! They are not in power because every other party joined an alliance to create a government without the largest party! Interesting times indeed and I hope it will go down as curious case in political academia.
But why am I rambling about this now? Because some of their policies, that never got repelled, really got me into trouble this long weekend. You see, they banned sunday shopping. Shops are closed on sunday in my country. This sucks, a lot, and creates really strange phenomenon in which most shopping is done on saturday. They were hoping that without ability to shop on sunday people would go to church instead. Joke on them, with shops closed most people don't have a reason to go outside on sunday, church was just something before or after shopping at best.
And I almost ran out of diapers for my daughter. Had to buy a single-packaged ones on the gas stations, in fact I think I bought all of them in the region, visiting one station after another.
Shit happens.
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