The next generation is secured
10/21/2022
Most of the conversations you're forced to overhear on public transport would be best forgotten immediately. Either they contain frighteningly private details that were definitely not intended for other people's ears, or they are simply embarrassing. Fortunately, however, you do occasionally witness a pleasant exception.
Like the other morning on the way to the editorial office, when a young man pushed his son's baby carriage and his son into the streetcar. The toddler obviously had fun with cars and named the brands of all passing cars - whether old or new - at the drop of a hat. His father wasn't staring at his cell phone with disinterest during the streetcar ride, but was having fun playing the game together and happily pointing out the models that his offspring should identify next.
Of course, this kind of thing brightens up the journey to a job that only exists as long as there is a passion for (old) cars. It's nice that there are still children who enjoy cars. And it's nice that there are still young parents who allow their children this interest, perhaps even share it with them, and don't reject private motorized transport per se as a despicable work of the devil. Perhaps the boy will buy one of the cars he identified that morning as a classic car in 30 years' time.
The little boy had also already internalized the bigger picture in the automotive world. When a brand new compact car with a lightning bolt in the radiator grille drove past, the boy recognized it immediately and said - Peugeot.
