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Ah, the old, perhaps overworked, Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

Methinks the wisdom therein might be an appropriate response to such protestations of poorly placed speed controls, what we would consider inconsiderate driving and parking practices, barking dogs, unruly theater audiences, poor sanitary conditions, etc., etc. Not long ago, there was a terrible uproar in this forum about a mean, nasty anti-foreigner rant in a local newspaper – calls for a boycott of the paper’s sponsors, letter writing campaigns to every travel agent in the world… Quite predictably, nothing happened, life went on for most of us as it usually does here. Perhaps food poisoning from a local restaurant is worth a word of warning, but even there we might want to be careful to jump in. Not long ago I got sick after eating a nearby restaurant owned by a friend. I thought about complaining to him, but then I thought about other places I may have visited, even things I had eaten at home, and decided it could have been any number of things, so I got well as I normally do after getting sick here. In the immortal words of Sir Paul McCartney:

Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on.

 

Right Alex, here you would find him at the back of the Seats or in an aisle somewhere on the phone to his G/F