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The Settlers of Catan is definitely one of the most thought out and entertaining board games ever. I've been playing it for 10 years now and just cannot imagine a live without it. The game - invented by the German author Klaus Teuber - is being played not only in German-speaking countries but in all of Europe, North- and South-America.

One would not think it is possible but there are still companies out there whose first priority is happy customers. Yesterday morning - rather around midnight - I ordered a cool cardgame from Amazon.de. Only to recognize a minute later or so, that it's prize of €9.99 fell short of the prize for free shipping.

I thought, okay, lets add something for €10 to get free shipping, so I went back to the startpage. Now since Amazon knows me pretty well they offered me to buy the Ween - Live in Chicago DVD. YES! I ordered it, too, immediately went to the account management to summarize the two orders just to see a message like We could not summarize your orders since one of the articles has already been sent. What? It's f*cking midnight and I just ordered it a minute ago?!

Rather angry email to the customer support to summarize those two orders. When I checked my email again late yesterday evening I got the reply from Amazon. The usual stuff "We could not... we are really sorry.. bla bla." I was just about to delete the mail when I read the last sentence. "Since the contentedness of our customers is our primary goal it is an implicitness for us to transfer the shipping fee for both orders to you banking account."

Now if this is not obligingness I don't know what is
Matthias

I have always been a great friend of Canada and its people. I know that and most people knowing me, do. Still it struck me today, when I found out I am subconsiously being a fan of this particular country.

Today when I did my laundry I decided it was time to wash my bed sheet, pillow-slip a.s.o. again. When I took the slip off the pillow a huge Canadian flag stared at me - imprinted on the pillow. No sign of a brand or anything, just that flag and the word 'Canada'. The funny thing is, I never knew it was there before. I wash that particular pillow slip like once a month and never saw it before, neither can I remember seeing it when I bought that pillow.

Do I buy myself Canadian fan articles subconciously?

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Matthias