Pepper for a Porsche

I was in the Netherlands for much of last week. During that time I spent quite a bit of time with a discreet, quiet, introverted and extremely tall, Dutch farmer. We went out for early morning runs together during the course of the week. He explained to me how, since the age of 19 when his father died (he was now 39), he ran his own family business which was a pepper farm in Rotterdam near the Netherlands. With each run he told me a bit more – it turned out that he actually had 27,000 square metres of peppers growing and that during peak periods in the year he was delivering 24 tonnes of peppers a day to Dutch supermarkets (roughly 100,000 peppers a day). He was actually learning German that week because he was in the process of setting up a new pepper farm in Leipzig which was going to be 100,000 square metres large. Each day after our run and breakfast we had to take the bus from the hotel to the training centre. On the last day he said that rather than taking the bus we should take his car because he had to drive off home at the end of the day. I suppose I shouldn’t really have been surprised that the silver Porsche Carrera that had been taking centre stage outside the front door of the hotel all week was his. It just went to confirm that I really am in the wrong job!