This is not exactly a laughing matter
This month Nov 05 they are having the Census in a small European country.
A couple of months back my wife's nephew Alex come over to Australia for a holiday. He spent ten days with us. Alex is 32. Works as a security officer with the main Airline. He also brought his wife.
Before getting the job with the Airline, Alex was a postman. Alex knows I do Family History. One day while chatting I mentioned to him that the 2005 Census is to be held in November.
He said " Uncle, of course I know " He continued saying " the last Census I had a part time job working as an ennumerator going house to house collecting data "
Maybe you know how friendly the locals are in some of those little countries. As soon as you enter their house, out comes the bottle of whisky. I experienced this myself in 1992 when I went over to visit my wife's family. As a rule the locals there drink coffee. Whisky is an expensive item for them, but if your'e a visitor its always whisky first.
So Alex cotinued, " I've got the job again this year " and kept saying " uncle, I'll be pi**ed by the time I finish going from house to house, everyone knows me, cause I deliver their mail and they all love me and give me a tot of whisky as I enter their house "
I nearly burst laughing. Then I said to him " So, thats why we get all the bl***y errors in every Census "
True story.
