The Christopher Robin Method.

The Christopher Robin Method

Instead of vituperation, try pleasantly but persistently asking authorities to fulfill your requests.

Of course we all banding together pooling our sweet requests and letting each other know how it turned out, constitute a political power group.

and commercial too.

I am reading a scholarly book about the mafia in Sicily and see similarities everywhere. We are all in a sense prisoners of war, and the methods of resistance are general and ubiquitously efficient. By consensual validation we coalesce and then relate vis a vis our surroundings, be they barbed wire or people who smile. (The human smile is the most dangerous weapon in the world.)

120701 18:36 We could have the Christopher Robin Auxiliary (those who insist and demand and require that the world conform to our notions of a nice place).

250701 16:06 Today I tried to gracefully get some information on the fone, and was glad I was not so stupid as to try that with a mobil fone, as it took twenty minutes to fail. Then I use another method which worked rapidly. One must keep one´s wits about one so as to avoid going mad in Norway, land of incompetence. 260701 02:51 Perhaps we can call TCRM the attack of 1000 smiles.

290801 0814 One way to use this method is to write a nasty letter and hand it over to a colleague to put into diplomatese.

051001 1736 I do not feel that the movie houses in Oslo would be safe in an emergency --- what should I do about it?