[yankeedame]

But with vacations enshrined in union contracts, any change in vacation and holiday habits are likely to be gradual...

Ha! Like no duh! Until (if ever) the backs of those unions are broke, the German (and French and British and American) economy has a wolf by the ear- it can no longer hold yet it dare not let go.

[nothingnew]

("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")

I like that. I've given over to the fact that I must laugh at most things. To not to would be the death of me.

FMCDH