Wednesday 9 January 2008

Overheard VI

In the petrol station, while I’m paying for my fuel, a man in a high-visibility vest asks the cashier, in a thick Eastern European accent, ‘So, do you have to buy a wife in Ghana?’

‘No. You can pick them up. You can pay, but you don’t have to and you can usually get a good price when you buy someone.’

Neither are very friendly, and I leave quickly, unsettled.

4 comments:

Ann ODyne said...

Various costly government departments would have us believe that a genetic culture can, indeed does assimilate when moved through time and space.

eejits.

Katherine said...

awful. and so casual.

Gucci Muse said...

And that is how they are....but here in the U.S., they have rights, don't you know............

Anonymous said...

Blimey a Borat in real life?