While in Malta our friend Michael told us about a shop owner he had met. This pot-bellied man could be seen day in and day out sitting on his swivel chair behind the horseshoe shaped counter of his optician's store. Beyond the counter there were endless shelves with his merchandise, and if anyone asked him for a particular item he'd just swing around in the direction where the piece would be and tell one of his assistants to get it. He always knew where something was, and he'd never leave his chair.
Michael got to talk to him one day buying some goggles and introduced himself as a vacationer spending his time there on Gozo. He asked the shop owner, whether he ever went on vacation. "Yes, in fact I will go on vacation in 2 weeks", the man replied with his heavy Maltese accent. "I'm going on a cruise, because: I love to eat, but I don't like to move!"
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