About Smolíček Pacholíček

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Smolíček. And one beautiful, yet sweltering day, his parents forgot this little boy in front of an IKEA department store.

Now you're probably thinking: "Oh, poor little boy," but he didn't care much because, although he was tiny, he was already incredibly brave. For a while, he just wandered aimlessly, and only one phrase kept running through his head: "Oh well, I won't worry about it, I don't remember my last name anyway, so what would I even tell the police."

And as he wandered, he suddenly looked around and realized he was in a deep forest. He sat down on a stump to rest for a bit. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a deer with golden antlers stood before him. The deer just stared at him for a while and then said: "I see you're here all alone, so how about you come with me to my place?"

Smolíček looked at him and said: "Mmmm, I guess I won't lose anything by that, I have nowhere else to go anyway." And so he set off with the deer to his home.

You're probably asking now: "What kind of nonsense is this, a little boy being adopted by a deer?" Well, if monkeys or wolves can raise a little boy, why couldn't a deer? And besides, neither monkeys nor wolves live around here.

They lived happily in the forest, and Smolíček found a second daddy in the deer, and vice versa, the deer found in Smolíček the son he never had. Because Smolíček was still tiny and because he still didn't remember his last name, the deer started calling him Smolíček Pacholíček. I could probably end the fairy tale here and everything would be beautiful and end for the best, but life isn't like that. It doesn't go easy on anyone.

So it happened that one day, three men appeared at the door and were already in the yard: "Smolíček Pacholíček, open your little room to us, just as soon as we settle this with you, we'll leave again." Smolíček opened and let the men in suits into the apartment. One, probably the oldest, immediately started: "You probably don't know us, we are JEZing."

Smolíček's eyes widened and he stared at him blankly. The guy understood immediately and, with a smile on his face, began to explain: "JEZing stands for Jasná Evropská Značka (Clear European Brand), and because we are all lawyers and thus also engineers (Ing.), we have that 'ing' at the end. And now, why we came. We found out that you are using your surname unauthorizedly and that it is subject to an already registered trademark. Therefore, on behalf of our client, we ask you to change your name, perhaps to Tvaroháček (Curd-boy), otherwise, we will be forced to undergo a legal dispute with you."

Finally, they left a stack of papers on the table, they all said goodbye to Smolíček, and just as they had arrived, they left again.

Smolíček was very sad, and when depression was about to take hold of him, he started calling out: "Over the mountains, over the hills, Donald's dollars, deer where are you, Smolíček is in a depression." Out of nowhere, his deer appeared before Smolíček and began asking what had actually happened to him. Smolíček spilled everything truthfully and then burst into tears. The deer stroked his head with one hoof and scratched his chin with the other. Finally, he said: "Don't you worry about it, Smolíček, we will win that court case."

And so it happened.

The deer and Smolíček embarked on a legal battle. I won't lie to you, it was exhausting and lengthy. Many lawyers racked their brains over it, but what was probably worst was that every bit of fun costs something. The deer lost his golden antlers, which he put into the legal dispute. But so that everything wouldn't end badly, dear children—Smolíček and the deer won that lawsuit, and thus the official fairy tale of Smolíček Pacholíček remained with us. Only the deer no longer has his golden antlers, but only a replacement made of composite nanofibers.

The bell has rung, our Smolíček is full of joy.