Third entry

Today, while sitting in a café, enjoying an overpriced iced matcha latte and some not quite as overpriced bánh mì, I overheard the woman at the neighboring table tell her friend about some "money-charm" she recently purchased.

"So we talked, and she said she saw a lot of energetic potential but suggested I should also buy an aura-cleansing and some other charm as well - she would sell them as a bundle, even giving me a discount, but I said no."

She continued to talk about two vaguely money-related incidents that had happened to her within the past couple of days.

"I can really recommend it!", she concluded, and her friend hummed in polite agreement.

At home I wanted to see what a store that sells "money charms" might look like. I found a German website offering everything from money to love to revenge. Their address was in Düsseldorf, and because I thought, hey, maybe I have walked past there once, I looked it up. Turns out it's the Düsseldorf Branch Office of Siemens. To think that they might be running a side-hustle with scammy webstores selling fake magic.