TV review Training the memory with very max-$ names

Later in the day came in Radar (AVROTROS) Two people in the word who had been hurry to doubt their own memory: Rens and Marion, a couple who lived in the Frisian village of Bergum. After they had forwarded the annual water level to Waterbedrijf Vitens, they received a report that their consumption was higher than normal. « Then Rens went to look at the website, » said Marion, « to see: how much is that consumption? That was something of five thousand … » She looked sideways at her husband. « … Liter a day, » supplemented it. « On an annual basis that was two thousand cubic meters. Two million liters of water. » That was three thousand percent more than the year before. You would think that in such a case you can remember what all that water went on. But Rens and Marion really had no idea. Nevertheless, Vitens remained convinced that the pair had smeared through it in a year than fits in a large competition pool. « Where would they have left that water? », The voice-over of presenter Fons Hendriks sounded. In the meantime, they swam through such a swimming pool to show that that was really a lot of water.

The mystery had no solution. To be sure, Addy van Asten was called in – officially announced as « team leader leak detection », but also greeted affectionately by Hendriks as « Mr. the leak inspector ». Mr. The leak inspector could not only find leaks, but had never experienced that a household had used two million liters of water. And yet Vitens stood firm. Water meters don’t lie. Could the company not do anything for Rens and Marion? Yes: a spokesperson « could imagine that it is a shock if you suddenly get such a high bill if you had not expected that in advance. » They therefore did not have to pay the amount in one go.

« They don’t know the word » fellow humanity « at Vitens, » was Hendrik’s « inexorable final judgment. After this conversation, the presenter had found a lawyer according to who the burden of proof was at Vitens. She therefore advised Rens and Marion to go to the subdistrict court judge, and that was exactly what the couple had done. Nobody wants to pay for water that you can’t remember to have consumed.

But eh, now that we are completely talking about ‘remaining’ – pure out of curiosity: can you still remember those aforementioned messages?

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