Monday, August 30, 2010

Osterizer Blender 542

The customer is king


text: Michael Helbling; Photo: Simone Gloor


not so long ago in a not too distant land there lived a king. He had everything he could possibly want and much more. Above all, he suffered no shortage of officials, it makes life easier. She read every wish from your eyes. Once he had no desire to read them until the king went deep inside and yet still found a wish. Sometimes he took requests, of which he had never believed that it existed. The king lived from day to day the peaceful and enjoyable life you can imagine.

The years went by, and the king believed himself already in heaven on earth, had it not now and then filled with doubt about his wishes carried about life and deprived of sleep. He was always less time with his dukes and nobles to ride out or go hunting, because the number of staff who requested an audience with him to him to fulfill a wish, became longer and longer. The king was visibly irritated and knew themselves whether all the amenities that surrounded him, to please not more.

Because he remunerated staff all with a piece of gold for their services, the king saw his dwindling formerly inexhaustible wealth. He was by then for his easy manner and gentle widely known and popular, it was said among the servants now more often that the king had lately too irritable. There was sometimes even days, at which he was set to not even satisfied when he read off a wish from his eyes.

The officials quickly repressed but all doubts about going forward, because of which they should live and feed their families if not of the gold pieces, which gave them the king? So they made him their respects on and met him more and more requests, which he would never come of itself. It was is that the servants always lived better, but the king was poorer by the day. Finally he had his last garments put to the hunger of his servants for gold pieces breastfeed. He hungered more and more, meanwhile, staff were always fat and lazy.

The king is called customers by the way, and if he is not dead, he still suffers hunger and distributed gold coins to his servants: the telecom companies, health insurance, the insurance companies and whoever else wishes fulfilled, where there are none.

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