In the past, when there was still paper, dealing with the calendars was always a pain. If an appointment was postponed, a pen had to be found first (pens have two properties: they either disappear into an unexplored black pen hole or they have dried out.), then they crossed out, leafed through, the page was not found straight away, turned back, re-entered, first in the office calendar on the desk and later, to be on the safe side, in the family planner at home on the wall. Today, in the blessed days of smartphones, two or three screen taps are sufficient for larger deadlines, and on top of that, all participants or anyone else affected, pling, are informed immediately.
Since it’s all so easy, you shouldn’t just think about postponing the Oktoberfest, but rearrange the calendar right away, because if you look at it soberly and regardless of old habits, nothing really happens at the right time during the year. The first measure would be to swap Christmas and Easter because it mostly snows at Easter and a blue spring ribbon flutters through the air far too often at Christmas due to the temperature. The Bundesliga schedule is linked to the rain radar (only fair weather football), and the setting up of the maypole is pushed onto the now vacant Oktoberfest slot, because the ex-Oktoberfest season reliably offers blue skies.
Disguise party with plenty of alcohol – that can be two different things in Munich
While we’re at it: Mardi Gras will be merged with the new Oktoberfest in the summer due to the common features of “disguise party” and “plenty of alcohol”. At the same time, the Day of German Unity is slipping forward a few months so that it can continue to serve as a measure to extend the event, for example to July 7 (anniversary of the German World Cup victory in 1974 in the Munich Olympic Stadium) or July 19 (at two Dieter Reiter’s birthday pushed back months). Because the calendar is now again very full in July, the opera festival has to take place during the strong beer season, which follows a certain logic: Singspiel meets Singspiel.
Unfortunately, due to a stupid coincidence, the calendar entry for the Central Agriculture Festival was deleted in the whole hustle and bustle of postponement of dates. The consequence: The Oide Wiesn will take place every year in the future under its new name Freshness Sommerwiesn. And the annual Wiesn flu? Like other annoying viral diseases, it is temperature-dependent and mutates into a harmless sniff for all time.