Petr Vašina

"Jirka Hejnice and I, my mates of the time, we went to burn brandy every year. And in 1989, we there was a deadline for burning brandy on November 17th. So we picked pears here along the mill road, Jirka made yeast out of it, somewhere in Drkolnov, there he just drove it to the balcony, to the cellar, to the balcony and to the cellar to ferment it properly. So we loaded it on the seventeenth in the morning and we went there to Sulimov somewhere near Kroměříž to have it burnt in the distillery. So we distilled brandy, we had fun until about four or five in the morning, and we were supposed to have it on the eighteenth, because we were playing in a theatre orchestra at that time, so the performance was supposed to be a theatrical one. I think it should have been Aunt at dinner or something like that, Lubomír Feldek, such a show. Well, so we went and surely, we could still feel some alcohol in our blood systems, but so we wouldn't miss the show, let's go, go, go, and we came to the theatre and they told us there was a strike. I said, how about a strike?! We did not know anything at all, it wasn't common yet that there was a radio in the cars, and you didn't listen to the radio in the distillery, we didn't know anything at all. So, we were there as if ruining the strike. We asked what to do, as we went a long way there risking our driving licences and now there was a strike! We came to earn our one hundred and ten crowns for the show, and nothing else mattered!”