Well that's another one survived.Xmas is fairly low key here which suits me fine,although there is something a bit surreal about seeing people in shorts and t shirts next to a Xmas tree.
Had a surreal moment myself today.Went to pick and pay and halfway through the checkout my daughter realised she had forgotten something in another shop and took off leaving me to finish.When the stuff had gone through the girl asked for my picknpay card.I don't have one but I watched my daughter put it in the machine when we started so I told her this.She looked at me oddly,then said but madam you came here alone.No I didn't I said,my daughter was here,she was carrying a baby.So she consulted the girl doing the packing and being not particularly fluent in Zulu I didn't quite catch what was said,but I think the gesture for not right in the head is international.No madam,she said you are here alone no one is with you.By now there was a queue of interested on lookers so I decided further argument was futile established the card was just a loyalty card so not essential to make payment and went through.Next was the cigarette kiosk,where the till apparently wasn't working,but then suddenly sprung into life,then on the way out the security gate thing buzzed.The security guy looked at my receipt then waved vaguely at the trolley and said something here is buzzing.then waved me through anyway.
When I got outside my daughter wasn't there,and just for that split second I wondered if they were right I HD lost the plot.But I hadn't she turned up we checked the till roll and she had put the loyalty card through.But guess what.The thing that was buzzing,a security tag in a top I bought,which contains red ink that splats if you break it.So tomorrow I,m going to have to go back and get them to take the tag off.If someone knows the Zulu for "remember the nutcase yesterday who was hallucinating she had a daughter,well she is back hallucinating she paid for this top and you forgot to remove the security tag".please let me know ASAP.
