Say What!?

Well... remembering a significant wtf-moment is harder than I thought. Sure, I can think of a few small moments that happen more than once, like a guitar string snapping, or when some random guy suckerpunches me in my gut when walking through the corridors. Yet, these moments seem small and meaningless.

I will try and give you two of my memories, where my thoughts, as well as my facial expression screamed "WTF!". I'll start with the time I just received the news that I was being held back a year. It wasn't so much the news itself that shocked me. It was the fact that my mentor called me on my cellphone one afternoon, making sure that I knew that the decision was unanimous and that nobody had a valid argument for letting me pass the year, even though I had enough points to compensate for the insufficient marks. Anyway, that's life =)

I'm glad to say that my second memory is more pleasant, because it wasn't just 'my' moment. I was in England recently with a classmate, where we were working in a kitchen for a week. The moment wasn't in the kitchen though. We were in the supermarket next to it. We wanted to get some alcohol. At the time, my classmate wasn't eighteen yet, but he figured that they'd look at his card, see that he was born in 1992 and assume he was old enough. Instead, they took one look at his identity card and denied us, because "This Dutch identity card is not a valid license to use in the European Union" (WTF!?). We tried to rationally explain that the Netherlands was one of the founders of the European Union. Still, they refused. They said that a drivers license would be accepted though. He showed his drivers license (which he has because he rides a scooter) and still they refused, saying that we wouldn't get anything because "We had shown an invalid identity license earlier" (2xWTF!?).

Decide for yourself if these moments are strange or not. All I know is, my mind was officially fucked.