World’s First Divorce Fair Flops
There may just be a trade show for everything now.
In Vienna, Austria the world’s first “divorce fair” was held and journalists, divorce lawyers, detectives and mediators showed up. A lab was even set up to swab cheeks for paternity tests. But where were all of the people who want to divorce?
As it was, the unhappy couples had better things to do and the event was a flop.
Only a few dozen people turned out at the divorce fair. Some say that there were too many cameras there, and that’s what kept people away. True, there were more journalists than unhappy couples there.
So the lawyers had few to counsel, there were no cheeks to swab and no disputes to work through. Even the speed dating tables set up nearby were empty, as were the makeup chairs offered to women who would want to start their new lives with a new look.
Maybe divorce is just more of a private matter than the divorce fair organizers had thought. After all, not everyone likes to air their dirty laundry out in public.
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