Red, White and Blue
I have a visitor staying with us for the weekend: He's from the Netherlands. As a way to loosen things up and get the conversation flowing, I noted that we have something in common: we both have red, white, and blue flags.
"Yes!" he said. "Our flag symbolizes our taxes."
"Um... huh?" I stammered. I mean yeah, it's almost April 15 here, but the flag symbolizes taxes?
"Yes," he said. "We get red in the face when we talk about them, white in our knuckles when we get our tax bill, and we're blue after we pay them."
"Ah," I said, immediately grasping the concept. "That's the same with us -- only we see stars, too."
Posted April 10, 2009 5:00 PM
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