A household assembly with grandparents from Brno shouldn’t be all the time simply an idyll. Final week I discovered myself in a moderately troublesome state of affairs.
Our household heritage, along with priceless genetic gear within the type of an innate humorousness and love for conventional Czech tradition and delicacies, has grown with the supply of a present within the type of two million Czech crowns.
It appeared like a discount, however as soon as the grandparents revealed their phrases, it regarded extra like a entice.
It is sort of comical that it is the grandparents who’ve all the time been such masters at cute deliveries of candies, Legos, goodies and pocket cash that at the moment are arising with such a proposal.
However given their superior age, it is maybe comprehensible that they are beginning to get somewhat extra infantile.
Our household “reunion” befell of their cozy residence within the wider heart of the statutory metropolis of Brno, which appeared immersed in a nostalgic time when the clock stopped someday in 1978. When Zbrojovka Brno received the soccer league for the primary and final time.
After we sat down on the desk, we have been prepared for a conventional feast: ham, bananas, kiwi, oranges, raspberries, tenderloin with Karlovy Range (not Brno) dumplings, and naturally, there was additionally a bábovka with the noble style of honest South Moravian grandparental love.
After the final piece of cake left the desk and into the bellies of the kinfolk, the grandparents lastly revealed the aim of our gathering. “We’ve a present for you,” they introduced with an unmistakable seriousness that may’t be missed even via the layers of nostalgia.
At first it appeared like a dream. Two million crowns!
However as if our grandparents had some ulterior motives, situations adopted. They usually have been, predictably, odd to say the least.
“You need to promise us that you’ll vote for the STAN motion even for all times,” they knowledgeable us.
It was a sort of grotesque irony that our grandparents, who as soon as every week had problem taking a look at Otázy Václav Moravec and solely learn Vlasta and Zahrádkář, needed to arrange such a donation contract for us. Maybe it was their manner of motivating us to be extra concerned in political life.
However though we didn’t settle for the stated two million crowns, it was not for lack of gratitude. It was out of respect for our grandparents and their values.
For 5 photographs on the Austrian, we knew we would not be capable to stick with it. And we did not wish to cheat.
The treasure known as love, which they gave us throughout our lives, will stay in our hearts, and that’s rather more priceless than two million crowns or perhaps a euro in a financial institution or credit score union.
And we are going to sleep comfortably below a TENT, however not in a five-star resort with a Dosimeter within the emblem.
(writer’s feuilleton textual content, written in form exaggeration primarily based on the true story of a good friend) .
