 Hi guys, EvilDeer here. So I want to reference a story that happened to me probably about six months ago and it's got relevance to my previous V-Blogs where I talk a lot about Esperanto. Now a lot of Esperantists will say, have you ever just randomly in the street, you know, just bumped into an Esperantist? And it's a good question because what, there's 100,000, maybe 2 million of us that speak this language so what's the chances of you just randomly bumping into an Esperantist on the side of the road? Well guess what? It's happened to me. Now my story begins probably about six months ago during my honeymoon with my Mrs in Europe. Now we were in Switzerland and we were travelling through the mountain region into the centre of Switzerland with all those really lovely lakes, you know, the ones that you see on postcards types of things. And anyway, so we're travelling along and we're just walking around these beautiful fantastic lakes and we're just going from one tourist shop to the next because my Mrs, she loves shopping but not buying, she just loves window shopping. Anyway, so yeah, we're just walking around these random shops and we're out of like hours like literally and I'm getting tired and hungry and I'm like, can we just go back now, you know, I've seen it all, I'm over it, yeah, I'm tired and she's like, no, no, no, please, please, can we just catch that random little ferry, just say, you know that little ferry and just go to the other side of the lake, please. And I'm like, oh fine, fine, we'll just quickly catch a ferry and go see a few more things and then come back. Yeah, 40 minutes later, still on the ferry. But anyway, we got there eventually. So we were arriving this little, like, little other tourist area, whatever, I don't know what you call. And there's shops everywhere, up and down the road and lots and lots of cosmetic and chocolate shops. Anyway, my Mrs, she's been begging me the whole trip to buy some cosmetics and I'm like, no, dear God, save me. Anyway, she sees this one little cosmetic shop and she's like, ooh, I want to make it go in there. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's the end of the trip. We're heading back now. She's like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm going in. You can just wait here and she goes in and that's my Mrs. So I'm standing outside because, you know, I'm stubborn. I'm like, I'm not going in there. No, I ain't having, I'm just going to stand out here and wait. 15 minutes passes, 30 minutes passes. Yeah, I'm going in there. I've got to get her out of there. So I go in and I see my Mrs. in the back corner with a Chinese translator. Because these tourist shops, they all have these translators. They obviously make a lot of money, but they have these translators that help the customers who don't speak, you know, like German or whatever language was in that area. I can't remember. Sorry about that. But my Mrs. is talking to this Chinese translator and I'm just standing. I'm just staring at her, her little translation plate that she's got sitting here and it says Chinese Esperanto. Like it doesn't say it, but it shows the flags and I'm looking at that Esperanto flag real intently going, no, no, no way, get out of here. That must be like some Middle Eastern or African flag that I haven't seen before. No, it just, it just looks identical to the Esperanto flag. It's not Esperanto. She'll be part of the Esperanto. And then suddenly everyone just freezes. She looks at me. I look at her, we're frozen. She understood what I just said. And my Mrs. is sitting here going, there can't be two people who actually speak this crazy language of his. And then suddenly we're just like a way in Esperanto just chatting and just talking about everything, you know, how she learned Esperanto, how I learned Esperanto, you know, random things that Esperanto just do when we suddenly bump into each other. Like people have been denied our natural right for our entire lives. And suddenly we've just bumped into each other. And my Mrs. is sitting here with her cosmetics going, is someone going to help me? And we're just chatting. We're just chatting for like ages. And then after one month, this is like, can someone help me? And I'm still chatting. We're just, we're just random things. You know, she's inviting me over to dinner now to meet her husband who's an Esperanto speaker. My Mrs. is sitting here going, I want to go now. And eventually it got to the point where my Mrs. is like, I want to buy this. And then finally, you know, we brought the random cosmetics, which I was quite happy to buy now because I worked out pretty good for me. So we buy the cosmetics. I get a photo with this lovely young lady. I won't put the photo here, but I have got it as proof. The reason being is because I don't want to put someone's face all over the internet without their permission. So yeah, I got a photo with it. I got proof. I even got a little picture of the little, you know, the little translation thing up there. All the other people in the shop are like, why is this guy so excited to see another translator? Like, you know, it's just a language. But yeah, we're highly excited. Anyway, so that was just my random story. I just wanted to say that it is possible to meet Esperanto out there. And now it makes me really, really think, how many times have I just randomly walked past an Esperanist and not even realized? Like, if it wasn't for that random little translation plate that I just happened to look at because I'm interested in linguistics, that I noticed that she spoke Esperanto. Like, I could be walking past random Esperanists every day and I wouldn't even know it. It could be like just following me. I wouldn't even know it, man. Anyway, just joking. So yeah, maybe we should all just start walking around with these translation plates. I remember like back in the past, people used to get like these little Esperanto pins. I didn't even know we can get those anymore. But anyway, that's my story. That's over. I've gone past my time. So if you liked this video and you wanna see more, just share the shit out of it, you know? Like it, tell me you like it, and I'll make more. And yeah, I'll see you in the next video. And if I don't, I will find you.