{"id":8837,"date":"2023-08-26T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paddys.de\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2023-08-26T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:37:00","slug":"diese-vermaledeite-steuer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddys.de\/en\/diese-vermaledeite-steuer\/","title":{"rendered":"That damned tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 8<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">Minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Another photo of the week to mark the occasion. Light fare for in between, so to speak. Looking back over my last 25 years, let's say, I can think of quite a few people from my circle who, how can I put this best? Let's call it \u201edifferences of opinion\u201c with the justice system. I'm not saying I'm any better. But maybe I didn't let myself get caught out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be inclined to say that it was only my business environment, but that would be a lie. Besides, the boundaries are rather fluid for me. And what relationships have developed from many a business partnership. I wouldn't want to miss any of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked with Alfons Schuhbeck around the turn of the millennium, I guess. Probably at the end of the nineties, because that was definitely with my second company before I gradually left. Shit, I'm old. Originally a rental company for event technology, it quickly became a company that looked after entire events for thousands of guests or even events lasting several weeks. On tour every weekend from Friday lunchtime to Monday morning. In between, when the event was on, I would stand at the bar in the Irish pub \/ steak house - I wasn't vegan back then, on the contrary. Greetings go out to Dani &amp; Axel, thank you for a great time in my life and valuable experiences - working in the computer shop during the week - which I was allowed to take over as a commissioner for six months due to a terrible accident involving the managing director - what alternative would there have been back then? Nobody knew anything about this stuff. The countless black sheep fell flat on their faces and the few good ones had their own flourishing business. My girlfriend at the time lived in Munich, I lived 200 km north in Herzogenaurach, where I also hosted a cookery programme on local television. You don't think so? Well, take a look here. Spoiler, it was twenty years ago, no 4k and all that. It's probably for the best when I look at the clothes I wore back then. Wink smiley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cooking at Herzo.TV\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-AU3LvL0_Aw?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, that's right, there were also two degree programmes. I dropped out of my computer science degree at the FAU in Erlangen after my intermediate diploma because it didn't interest me. If I ever went to university at all, I probably spent more time in the caf\u00e9 than in the lecture hall. I win that bet.  My event management company also organised university parties. I later graduated with a degree in business studies. Because, yes, I have no idea why I studied again. Because I expected it to be expected. The only training I actually need for my job is to become a T\u00dcVS\u00fcd-certified data protection officer (DSB). Not because I couldn't do without it, but because I wasn't allowed to. But I already had ALS when I started that. Material for another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>\u221e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember one event with rather mixed feelings. First, the sound pressure of our PA system was too high for the ceiling elements in the cafeteria. Such a big thing came down and, of course, party guests were standing underneath it. Imagine dancing there unsuspectingly and suddenly the ceiling falls down. One of the guests had to receive emergency medical treatment. Unfortunately, I can't say that everyone got off lightly. But it could have been worse. Sick performance. Small consolation for us, we always did continuous sound pressure measurements at such events. It was close, but we were never louder than the university's structural engineer specified. It was probably just bad luck for everyone. And seriously, the university is not necessarily the newest and most modern building. Who knows when the ceiling elements were last inspected. In my gym, a part like that came down once. Not during a theatre performance, though, but at night. And we had whole phallanxes of spotlights screwed to them at performance times. They had to go somewhere. It was almost as glorious as drilling into a power line that supplied the auditorium with electricity. So long, at least. That wasn't me, by the way. I was only told that we shouldn't smoke the joint in the school building, but outside. Yeah, no, it was planned anyway, otherwise everyone would want some and there would be nothing left for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the second story of the evening was almost funny again. Well, at least from today's perspective. What kind of junk lorries we had back then. On the one hand, I love driving anything that's fast and\/or big. On the other hand, I find it more sexy when I don't have the feeling that the lorry is about to fall apart. But what are you going to do? We didn't have any money and were always scraping the limit. Our first PA cost DM 21,000 at the time. Which we didn't have. But we needed the system for a job. Sound reinforcement for a football pitch. Open air. With a lot of persuasion, I was able to persuade my banker to increase my overdraft and raise the limit on my credit card with my personal promise that the debit would not be cancelled. The plan was actually really brilliant. We bought the system on credit from my personal credit card. After the event, we returned the system as part of the right of return granted by the dealer (which was included in the plan). Just in time for the credit to be posted to the credit card shortly before the monthly credit card statement. A week later, that was the deal with the seller, we bought \u201eour\u201c system at a favourable price as a return, \u201eB-goods\u201c, because it was used. We would never have been able to afford such a purchase at list price. Nor would the seller have been able to sell it at the list price. It's a bit like cars today. The dealership does a one-day registration, drives round the block twice and the S4 only costs 75k instead of 88k. Isn't it beautiful? As far as I know, it's the only one that can be manoeuvred completely with your hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-1536x1023.webp 1536w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018-1180x786.webp 1180w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddys-Audi-S4-Avant-2018.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then, we were neither so chic nor so safe on the road. And it was the same for our partners in the industry, without whom nothing works in the event business. No matter what kind of transport you were driving, you were lucky if you didn't lose a tyre on the way. The desire for these carts was somewhat, well, restrained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, not everyone is allowed to drive 22.5 tonnes, so who's going to get stuck with it? My apologies to my old school for the gutter. With an additional two-axle trailer on an already overloaded lorry, it's just not that easy. Overloaded, good keyword. Erlangen. University party over. In between all the confusion, I dropped by another event. As managing director, people expect to see you. And we rarely had just one event per weekend. Anyway, back in time to dismantle. Material packed up. One load after another was transported down in the goods lift to the delivery zone of the canteen in the basement. There were our lorries. Full of luxury. When you drive in, it feels like you're going two metres downhill, so that when you roll back down you think you're going to touch down with the lift at any moment. But you are rewarded with practically level loading from the loading ramp directly into the lorry. And in the dry, even though it's pouring like hell. That's worth a lot when everyone is already on the verge of exhaustion and nobody really wants to do any physical labour. You can't drink that much Red Bull, even if there are pallets of it next to you. And at some point you finally make it anyway. All the vans full to the ceiling. Top edge of the lower jaw. Quasi the end of the day. All that's left to do is drive to the site, take stock, neatly assemble kilometres of cables - especially fun with 163 A three-phase cables that feel like they weigh a tonne - and store everything neatly before moving on to the next job in a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much for the theory. If only there weren't those damnable two metres in altitude that you not only had to come down yesterday afternoon, but stupidly had to come back up now. What can I say? I have no idea how many men, women and divers we ended up pushing. Not a chance. That's it, game over. You just can't do anything that steep uphill. So we unloaded all the shit again, pushed the shitbox up the hill, rolled the material up, loaded everything back in. Those are moments when you seriously ask yourself why you're doing this to yourself. It doesn't matter that it's your own company. You would like to pour petrol over the truck and burn everything down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>\u221e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wouldn't always have liked to turn up the volume. The ominous hotel production not only involved cooking, but also singing. While the second star guest, Michael Schanze, was famous for his musical interludes in the well-known TV programme \u201eKinderquatsch mit Michael\u201c, how can I put it, Alfons, you are a gifted host, chef, creator and businessman. It's good that you've stayed on this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was such a tricky job for us anyway. I happened to know the hotel manager personally since childhood through my father. The Hotel Herzogspark was previously world-famous as the adidas sports hotel. Everyone who was anyone went there. Then as now. From David Hasselhoff to the German football team. They were all there. And in the middle of it all, the little Paddy boy. It was amazing how tall David Hasselhoff was when I sat on his lap. I'll ask my parents if they can still find the pictures from back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not only the hotel chef who was well known to me. The highly paid chef was my regular in the pub. He liked to bring the best truffles or hearts that money could buy. With that, he would disappear into our tiny kitchen and work his magic. Ever since that day, I've had a soft spot for awesome truffles. All the truffle oil and stuff that is usually sold as truffles is for the bin. Honestly. Well, in any case, everything had to go smoothly because of him. And the customers in this case, and the whole constellation, took some getting used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If someone had told me back then that shortly afterwards I would take an incredibly fascinating woman, well actually a minor, out of her Munich boarding school for girls to rent an attic flat with her in Munich's Westendstra\u00dfe, I probably wouldn't have believed them. The fact that her father is a highly respected lawyer doesn't necessarily make it easier. But maybe I would learn at some point that I had at least known her stepfather for many years. He was also known beyond the city limits. After all, he had been running the only 5-star hotel far and wide for years, where, apart from our national football team, Alfons Schuhbeck could also be found. And by underage, I didn't mean that my girlfriend had just turned 14. But maybe she had just turned 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>\u221e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I only came up with all this nonsense because my dad read in Bild that Alfons had to go to prison. I immediately remembered this photo, which is almost exactly five years old. That was in 2017, in October. The first symptoms of my ALS were already showing. Climbing stairs in particular caused me problems in everyday life. Nevertheless, I have fond memories of that time too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017-1180x1573.webp 1180w, https:\/\/paddys.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Paddy-und-Alfons-Schubeck-2017.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are moments when you seriously ask yourself why you are doing this to yourself. 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