Do you
want to know a funny definition of a banker ?
It is the
guy who lends you an umbrella and wants it back when it
rains!"But it
is not so at the Caisse populaire de la Ouareau, who invited someof
their clients last Tuesday to a golf tournament at Rawdon's (very
British) Golf Club.
It
started pouring the night before, it rained all morning, but the
Caisse pop insisted that the tournament took place.
As
expected it was a very, very wet event. But the Caisse did'nt ask
for their umbrellas and so everybody was under the impression: "We
have a golf cart and an umbrella, and maybe it will stop raining.
So, we will make it."
And it
did'nt stop raining, and the Caisse and the clients did'nt give up
until everybody was wet like a cat.
How
should le miroir
interpret this unusual behavior?
Is
there maybe a secret bind between the Caisse and the clients, or is
the Caisse so "populaire" that nearly everybody went to the end of
the game not to get, later at the bar, a few nice comments from his
bank manager?
However, it continued raining meanwhile the barmen and girls
tried to compete the outside situation with streams of vodka
(russian = water) and other powerful drinks to warm the crowd
up.
As
expected, the united golfers showed inside the clubhouse the same
toughness against water and cold like outside.
The reporter
from le miroir - not
used to tough events like this - barely followed, freezing outside
in the rain, and he was close to be filled up inside at the
bar.
The
result is this skinny story and just a few photos. But le miroir wanted to honor the
Caisse pop for another exceptional reason:
Thanks
again for the computers which helped us to start two years
ago.
Since
that time, we have developed real "family feelings" for the Caisse
pop, and it looks like many other clients did it too.
Otherwise, they would not go with their bankers through the
hastle of a water battle like this, organized by their group from
''Gestion des avoirs''.
Last
comment:
After slowly drying up during a very nice evening, I
did'nt see anybody collecting umbrellas.
Heinz Koch 12.09.07
Photos + animation : Heinz Koch
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