Below are a series of emails I received
that describe Madpole's holiday trip to Amsterdam,
in particular his attempts to meet a mutual
dutch friend, whom we will call Mr K.
It is a farcical disaster, and very funny,
too good not to share with you.
- Eadon
Email from
madpole (in amsterdam) to Mr k (cc'ed to me)
Mr K,
Where are You, dumbed it?!! I spent half a
day trying to find working phone box in Amsterdam
and when I found it I could not get through
to You... it was ringing and ringing and then
"cutting off"...
Here is the "latest" plan: I will
be waiting at Central Station Taxi Rank at
16:00 on Friday... maybe 18:00 too? And tomorrow
(Saturday) the same schedule: 14:00 and 16:00
- Madpole
Email from
Mr k (in Amsterdam) to me
Madpole is in Amsterdam and we arranged to
meet on Friday, but due to some tragic misunderstanding,
we missed each other. However, I don't understand
why he didn't call me or e-mail. I actually
went to an internet cafe in order to get in
touch with him, but he didn't respond. In
fact, he still hasn't responded to my e-mails.
I've been looking around for him for hours.
Eventually I e-mailed him to tell him I was
going to that bar and I explained to him how
to get there, but he didn't show up...
[
At this point Mr K met a cute chick whilst
waiting for Madpole in the cafe: time passed
pleasantly - Eadon]
...I lost my notion of time, and in fact I
missed the last train to Arnhem. There was
a train to Utrecht and I thought there was
a train from Utrecht to Arnhem, but there
wasn't :) Only on Saturdays! So I had to wait
there for about five hours, and even though
it's an indoor train station, it was chilly
there. At least I know what it must be like
to be homeless now ;)
- Mr
k
Email from
madpole (back in england) to me
Just a quick "check-in".. ... yeah....
The Amsterdam experiment got a bit outside
its scope... although strangely enough it
kindda has not... nothing went to plan and
everything kindda did... it was kindda being
observant and object of observation scenario
but it wasn't necessarily pleasant hehehe...
anyways... more about that later... I haven't
talked to anybody for 6 days so I am a bit
short on words hehehe..... Thank god I met
Charlotte and Dimitri although unfortunately
that happened too late and for too brief moment....
oh well.... I can feel winter depression coming
on hehehehe....I just wish I had some herbal
remedy damn it! ;-)
- Madpole
Email from
Mr K to me
As you probably know, Madpole has returned
to England without meeting me. I am not sure
if I told you, but I went to Amsterdam to
meet him, and when we didn't find each other,
I went to an internet cafe to e-mail him,
but he never contacted me after that. I went
to that bar again and promised the girls that
I would bring him over the next time. Now
I´m going to have to get over there
and tell them what went wrong. Charlotte told
me she told Madpole that I had been looking
for him for hours, and allegedly he was so
shocked and full of guilt that he returned
to England feeling bad about himself and me.
I can´t feel sorry for him. When he
had finally collected enough courage to e-mail
me, he told me the trip had been ´bad,
i.e. spiritually good and painful´...yeah
right.
By the way, Ania [
Ania is a Polish barmaid
Mr K and I met a couple of weeks ago - she
works at the cafe and we promised her she
would soon meet the famous Madpole - Eadon]
wasn't a bit surprised when I tried to explain
what Madpole is like.
'All Polish people
are like that', was her simple response
:-)
- Mr
k
The End
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