Chapter 1079: Meet the Strange Old Man Again
Xiao Peng was still applauding the young men showing off their skills on the field when he suddenly heard someone next to him say hello: "Xiao, why are you here?"
"Huh?" Xiao Peng turned around and saw that it was Karl, so he said, "Karl, shouldn't I be the one saying this? It's normal for me to be here. I'm a young man! But why are you here?"
Carl pointed to the French fry stand next to him and said, "That's my stall." He looked at the French fries in Xiao Peng's hand and said, "Thank you for taking care of my business!"
Xiao Peng then noticed that Carl was wearing an apron, and the logo on the apron was exactly the same as the logo on the stall where he had just bought French fries.
"Pfft." Xiao Peng complained about the French fries in his hand, "French fries like this for three euros? You're too shameless! Are these fries? They're clearly long strips of building blocks! And there's only so little of them!"
His complaints were not without reason. The French fries he bought were about ten centimeters long and two centimeters wide. How big a potato should be to make this shape?
Carl laughed out loud: "Welcome to the Netherlands... Oh, welcome to the Netherlands. Wait here for me!"
After he finished speaking, he left immediately. Xiao Peng then realized that he was also wearing inline skates.
Hey, this old man is really good at having fun!
A moment later, Carl slid back with a tray.
He skated so steadily that Xiao Peng was so envious.
Thinking back to his childhood, although there was a roller skating rink, Xiao Peng was always the one watching from the side - he had no money to rent roller skates.
"Come, try the beer I brewed myself," said Carl.
There were two disposable paper cups filled with beer on the tray.
Xiao Peng shook his head and refused: "Don't drink and drive, and don't drive after drinking."
Karl smiled and said, "Don't worry, driving in the Netherlands is fine as long as your alcohol content doesn't exceed 0.5P. A beer is fine. The most important thing is... they don't check for drunk driving these days!"
"No checks for drunk driving?" Xiao Peng was stunned.
Carl nodded and said, "During the epidemic, in order to ensure the safety of the police and fear that the police would be infected with the epidemic, they stopped activities such as drunk driving inspections, and they have not resumed them yet... It's fun to be lazy for a while, and it's fun to be lazy all the time, right?"
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this.
The Netherlands is a country famous for its "freedom". Selling Y is legal here, and some types of drugs are also legal... basically anything is allowed, which also led to the repeated outbreaks of the epidemic in the Netherlands at that time.
The situation in the Netherlands is similar to that in other European countries: epidemic prevention measures are implemented - the epidemic situation improves - people protest and riot - epidemic prevention measures are relaxed - the epidemic becomes serious again - epidemic prevention measures are implemented again - the epidemic situation improves again - people protest and riot again - epidemic prevention measures are relaxed again - the epidemic becomes serious again...
Then the epidemic recurred.
Are the police now relaxing their enforcement? They really have a way!
"Thank you!" Xiao Peng took the beer and took a sip, his eyes lighting up. "Hmm? This tastes great! This is the first time I've experienced beer with so much honey in it being so delicious!"
Carl was also amused after hearing this: "Wow, I didn't realize you were such an expert!"
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "What kind of expert am I? I'm not a drunkard!"
Carl said, "We've all lived at sea, so who doesn't know who? Life at sea is so boring! How can we survive without alcohol and cigarettes?"
Xiao Peng took another sip and said, "I've made up my mind! I'm going to have a couple more drinks today and then I won't be going home."
Karl said, "Xiao, I only offered to buy you a drink. I'm not responsible for anything more than that!"
Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this, then he burst into laughter: "Karl, you will definitely make a fortune! And a huge fortune."
Karl laughed after hearing this: "Okay, I will definitely thank you for your good words when I make a fortune."
"Come on!" Xiao Peng said bluntly, "You have a collection of Marlene Dumas paintings and you still have the nerve to say you're not rich? Just with those few paintings, you should be richer than 99% of the people in this world, right?"
Carl responded with a rather pretentious response: "If a person measures wealth solely by money, then he must be poor."
After listening to this, Xiao Peng pondered for a moment and said, "Karl, I want to thank you. You are my 'one-word teacher'. This sentence is enough for me to learn."
Carl laughed and said, "What's this? This is still Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory. Do you know Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory?"
Xiao Peng must have known it, but he could see that Karl was in high spirits, so he didn't interrupt him and just listened with a smile.
"Maslow divided human needs into five levels. The lowest is physiological needs, which means satisfying food and clothing to maintain individual survival. At this level, money is definitely their most important priority," Carl said. "Once this need is met, people will consider things like security, employment, health, and property. This is the higher level of safety needs. Beyond this level, people will develop emotional connections and value family, friendship, and relationships. The next level is esteem needs, which means you want to be recognized for your value. The highest level is self-actualization and realizing your dreams. I'm afraid only people in the lowest two levels of society measure wealth solely in terms of money."
Xiao Peng nodded: "I agree with what you said, but this is inevitable. I can't even fill my stomach and you tell me to let people respect me? That's basically deceiving yourself."
After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Karl looked at Xiao Peng and suddenly slapped his forehead: "Damn it!"
Xiao Peng was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Carl said, "You must know Maslow's theory! I'm still talking about it!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong with that. You can hear different opinions on the same thing from different people. Hearing your opinion is also good for my growth."
Karl sighed and said, “When I saw you, I thought about my youth. If I could be like you when I was young, that would be amazing!”
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "You should be pretty good now, right?"
Before Karl could speak, someone next to him started laughing.
"Huh?" They both turned around and saw several young men and women sitting next to them. One of the young men was laughing.
Seeing Xiao Peng and the other man looking at him, the young man was not nervous. Instead, he smiled at them and said, "We heard what you said just now. To be honest, I want to thank you!"
"Huh? Thank us for what?" Carl asked.
The young man said, "I will always remember what happened today for the rest of my life. It reminds me that when I'm old, I must not be like you, who can only brag. You're so old, and you still have the nerve to brag about running a French fry stand here? If I'm still this miserable at your age, I might as well commit suicide!"
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. Although he didn't dare to say that he could judge the crowd accurately, he could guarantee that Carl was definitely not just a French fry seller!
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