Recently I was standing at the Starnberg train station again and waited in vain with what felt like 300 other passengers for the S-Bahn, which of course never came. But what does it matter if you have your cell phone at hand. After one and a half minutes at the latest, everyone had pulled it out and was happily playing it in front of them. So long until one of the bystanders started clamoring loudly that it would be the least possible to at least charge the cell phone while waiting. But he doesn’t see a charging station. That was lousy service, he moaned. Many of those waiting agreed with him. Yes, that’s what people like to do when it comes to bad service. After all, service is always bad. Whether on the platform, in a café, at the airport or at the garbage disposal. I’ve been told that even in the mine the service is miserable.
Only in the Starnberg District Office is closeness to the citizen a top priority. They do their things brilliantly even when there is no one around who could do the service. Around Sunday. Yes, especially then. That’s why I had to be very surprised when I saw the CSU district councilor Ute Nicolaisen-Marz crawling around on the floor like a beetle at the beginning of the budget committee meeting on Tuesday. The good one was obviously out of juice and was looking for a socket to charge her laptop. After all, as a conscientious district councilor, you want to be able to read the meeting documents, and that is only possible on a laptop. Because the district authority has decided to radically save paper. Super offensive, I think.
Saving is actually a service with a future. Not only on paper, but also on water, on gas, on degrees on the thermometer and on cables. On cables? What’s that about? In any case, my friend Ute was very surprised. The good girl was happy as a schnitzel when she discovered a brown three-way distribution socket on the underside of the tabletop. It’s worth crawling a bit like a beetle for that. But the pretty socket was obviously not connected. So a dummy. In any case, there was no cable, so there was no electricity on the laptop. Poor Ute. They then briefly looked for another connection, but gave up their efforts when they obviously realized what the district authority was after with this campaign – active power saving. Pretty smart, thinks your Nepomuk.