A Funny Story

So here's a story that amuses me greatly that illustrates the Czech culture pretty well. Hopefully I can tell it as well in writing as it is told in person.....

So Henk and Ivana own a flat in Prague 1, literally right across the street from Charles Bridge. Henk recently decided to make the living room into a meeting room for his business. to make this more feasible he wanted to add a phone line and internet connection to the room. He called O2, Europe's big phone company last week to request the internet line be installed. They told him it would be no problem, but currently all the lines in the building were already being used by other tenants, so they said that he'll have to wait a little before they can hook it up for him. So Henk asked if they meant that he has to wait for one of the other people in the building to cancel their internet or move or something. The O2 representative's response was "well yes sir, so it may be a few days" to which Henk said "Well if that's the case then it could be months! Or even YEARS!" The O2 people simplay said "Well yes, it could be that amount of time sir, but we guarantee a successful hookup once a line is free."

Luckily Henk is friends with someone really high up at O2, so the internet was installed today. His guess is that they simply disconnected one of the neighbors without telling them......