Jan Šisler

"Then it was a classic, just like that. I actually started working at the Cleaning Company and I was absolutely desperate, because there was a toothless gypsy who was my boss, and she used to say, 'Okay, guys, let's do it.' Well, when I had those friends from the Mountain Service, Mr. Kabes, Mirka, he says: 'So, screw it, you ski, you do mountaineering, you take the exams for the Mountain Rescue Service. I'll employ you here as a chambermaid, you'll get a stamp here - Restaurants and Canteens - and you'll take the exams for the Mountain Rescue Service and you'll be here with the Mountain Service. And I said, 'Hey, Mirek, that's great!' So he gave me a little flat, and that's what I did. And then I had this accident there, actually we were organizing a skiing test, I was helping little Kabeš... and we were organizing it, we were preparing the skiing tests, and the rope from the lift fell. We said, 'We have to put it up', so we did, but it launched me about twenty-five metres between the rocks and broke my spine."

"I worked there for a while, I don't know, for about two years, and then I was writing some samizdat and things like that, so one person, I won't name him, reported on me, which I found out later, and I was fired. So now where to go to work, right? Then I worked with Vašek Kotek at the Theatre Under the Tent, which was amazing, because Vašek Kotek was a great guy, he was my life time friend. So we did the Theatre under the Tent and the first tour was in Žižkov and the second in Olomouc. And from Olomouc I went by car to the 'Tile House' and there for some interrogations and so on and so forth."