Comment by kolinko
3 days ago
I don't know about Australia, but in Poland, on Easter and Christmass, I can easily believe there would be no single bakery open in the whole country.
Also, it was before google maps, so they couldn't just google nearest open bakeries. It might as well have been "nearest open bakery they were aware of". Funny how modern tech made the terms "closest open" and "closest known open" virtually the same.
I would have taken the yellow book and called every bakery listed there to check if they were open. I think sometimes the impact of technology is overstated :)
You sat down next to the phone with the phone book for ten minutes.
"Closest open" was virtually the same as "closest known open", back when "flying" could only mean "I've got a fast horse".