when we walked into a store

filled with nothing but cuckoo clocks

i really had to wonder

how long would it take before this made the workers a bit cuckoo?

who has to reset them all and keep them running?

do they dream of the little birds popping out, and little people dancing in a circle?

do they hear the sounds every 15 minutes even when not working?

do they use their employee discount to buy clocks for their homes?

do they have any long term employees?

do they give you a cuckoo clock when you retire?

—

 

‘since both of its  national products, snow and chocolate, melt,

the cuckoo clock was invented

solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.’

-alan coren