Photos Uit Amsterdam: Is This You?

Spotted sellotaped to the tram stop at Koningspein in Amsterdam:

Is This You

I foresee two possible outcomes.

One will result in a very touching scene between a father and son a few years from now when the inquisitive young boy asks how mummy met daddy. The proud father will put his paper and pipe down, pick up the young boy and sit him down on his knee. As they sit together next to the fire in the father’s favourite old leather armchair he starts to tell his son a most wonderful story about a romantic search across an entire city to find the girl who had quite unexpectedly taken his breath away one summer day on tram number five. It is the kind of epic love story that poems and novels are written about. It is a story that stays with the young boy. It shapes and forms many of his own thoughts and ideas about love which eventually lead to him meeting his own wife many more years later… and then, a few more years later still, it is a story he tells to his own children about how grandmother met grandfather…

That or a lengthy court case resulting in a restraining order. It could go either way.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

21 Responses

  1. Rose says:

    I love this… it is so creative and well cute (if it falls under the first story). Thanks for the smile today… it was needed!

  2. VallyP says:

    There’s a whole story waiting behind that idea, isn’t there Stu? 5 challenge you…hee hee…Invading Holland meets the Master Monster Marmite thief…yay!!!

  3. A Touch of Dutch blog says:

    Wow… I wonder how many {crank} calls they received.

  4. Invader Stu says:

    Kat – He must have been really impressed if it was her teeth and he still wants to find her.

    Rose – No problem. And thank you for the compliment :)

    VallyP – It could be a how series of detective novels :p

    A Touch of Dutch – Oh, I bet a lot.

  5. Just a Plane Ride Away says:

    I vote for story #1, though story #2 might be better TV.

  6. Invader Stu says:

    Just a Plane Ride Away – and a better court trail

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