Guinness Records

My 8-year son has been for a while obsessed with Guinness Records, and the only books he brings home from library besides the “Star wars” literature, are the different yearbooks with the weird records that seem to be a meaning of life for quite many people. And as a parent of today, I am glad whatever my children read, just the fact that they read is impressing regarding the huge amount of other available entertainment. So I don’t care if the book is about a man who has eaten 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 2 metal beds and a light weight Cessna airplane. I just wonder that this man is a Frenchman, I could have understood him being an English guy and therefore preferring this kind of diet.

So my son has been begging me to take him to the Guinness World Records Museum in Copenhagen and as having holiday again this week we took there yesterday. I think that normally the museums in Copenhagen have reasonable entrance prices, but this bloody place wanted to have 85 kr (EUR 11,5) for adults and the half for the children. I tried to settle with 3 children’s tickets, but the guy at the ticket sale said I really needed to buy an adult ticket. “But aren’t we all children of God ?” I asked. No, he hadn’t read his bible and I had to pay 170 kr for the three of us. After 35 minutes we were out again, the kids totally disappointed and complaining that this was no fun, nothing like the very entertaining and childfriendly Post & Tele Museum where we easily spend 3 hours. I wasn’t just disappointed, I was furious paying so much money for this non sense. So I went resolutely to the guy at the ticket sale and demanded my money back. Quite shocked and looking at me as I was from Venus (how did he know), he stuttered that he had no authorization to give me money back, I had to write to his supervisor. While I was accusing the place to be a total rip-off, he though agreed that there maybe wasn’t that much to see; I see this as a small victory itself. But I am going to write to the supervisor to demand my money back. They can at least award me giving them two new records; the worst museum in the world and the most unsatisfied customer of all times .