The yuppie is an unknown species in Sweden because as soon as anyone starts earning anything like a living wage, the taxman steps in and starts levying income tax at 105 ore to the krone or whatever, and you can’t even drown your sorrows at the local because you need to remortgage the house to raise enough for a night out on beers and chasers with the boys, but with that sparse population and those great distances between them, even non-yuppies need cellular telephones – but the Swedish Defence Ministry has ruled that on military reserve duty, users will just have to remain out when they’re out on manoeuvres – it reckons a potential enemy could pinpoint troop movements by eavesdropping on reserve officers’ calls back to the office.
