I just can’t get used to how fast time flies by! Another week is over before you know it. Of course, one thing I do remember is my brilliant act of generosity. It was a very good deed. Yet it was also bad news for me. And that is the irony of it. I call it my own personal “Discounter Disaster”.

You see, it all happened last Saturday when I drove to the supermarket to do some shopping – as I always do every weekend. First I wanted to return a carload of empty bottles. I had collected them for a month, so it was high time to get rid of them. I hustled over to the reverse vending machine and just kept pushing in one bottle after the other. That took a full ten minutes. Then I pushed the button. Unfortunately, it was the wrong button, much to my surprise. Instead of getting the paper receipt for my deposit money, the words “thank you for your contribution” appeared on the display. My contribution? Yep, you heard that right. Many of these machines now have two buttons – very close and right next to each other. Pretty smart and clever. One button is for the receipt. The other button is for contributions to charity. Quite naturally I had selected the latter. However, I still do not know which charity will benefit from my 18.50 €. But one thing I do know – those beverages were mighty expensive indeed!