Christmas is approaching again at a speed that no expert would have thought possible. The second Advent is already here and with it the guilty conscience: No presents yet. Not even thought about wishes. Would it be worse if there was nothing under the tree or the wrong thing? Perhaps, before getting into a buying frenzy, you should pause for a moment, leaf through the latest issue “Baby und Familie” and take the tips in issue 12/2021 to heart. Because the family experts from the “Wort & Bild” publishing house in Baierbrunn are convinced that there is only one thing that can help against mountains of gifts from relatives: clever gift management.
That sounds like extensive feasibility studies, participation of those affected, approval decisions and barriers to change. Without a project manager or, better still, an external planning office, this will not be possible. Ultimately, it is important to work out a plan that is accepted by all sides and that is not open to legal challenge: the wish list.
Anyone who thinks that you can write what you want on a piece of paper like this – it doesn’t matter whether it comes true or not and the Christ child is to blame for missing gifts anyway – they really don’t take this serious matter seriously. Every mayor knows, for example, that you shouldn’t do it. There are never happily ever citizens. And the motto of the former CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss – “Everybody’s darling is everybody’s idiot” – no one dares to adopt so aggressively these days.
Unterhaching’s town hall chief is also with the SPD, and he is currently trying something like squaring the circle for a small piece of bike path in a new development area in order to block all the wishes of the residents there. But that’s not the only wish list that is currently causing Wolfgang Panzer a headache. In the hallway of the town hall he has now hung up the wishes of the first graders in his community. They don’t write to the Christ Child or Santa Claus, but to the mayor. Presumably the girls and boys place him somewhere between a Jedi master and a master Eder in terms of importance and competence. In any case, they trust him to do a lot. The mayor should not only build a dinosaur park, he should also make sure that Corona disappears.
This is the dearest wish of the Lolli-Test generation, who knows their teacher only with a mask and who have got used to the fact that parties are canceled. And paints a crossed out red, spiky ball on the wish list. If Wolfgang Panzer needs a gift manager for this challenge: His colleague and party friend Klaus Korneder in Grasbrunn really scared the virus this week with the abolition of the emergency committee.