Its Christmas. And?
Do not misunderstand me, Christmas is lovely and wonderful. I love it. I desperately love it. But folks nowadays have a tendency to overdo some things in the spirit of celebration.
Fireworks, crackers and as they are well known here - bangers. Why would someone light a cracker and throw it into a bus filled with people? Or light it in a shop?
Even I have had my fair share of misbehaving with crackers. December 1998, I threw a cracker into our toilet to see the effect of water raising from the explosion. I leave the rest to your imagination. No, I don’t. I’ll tell you what happened. I rendered the toilet unusable for days. Water was leaking to the flat of our neighbours living on the floor below us. I lost quite a lot of pocket money.
Last year, 2006, I had to get fuel for my generator. No filling station operating so I had to settle for black market. People were comfortable throwing bangers in our direction when we were tranferring feul from keg to jerry can. Haba, respect the power of fuel.
On a brighter note, I expect that you will send me my share of whatever you eat. Email it to me, zipped of course. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidys and a fulfilling New Year.
The ramblings of a programmer and web application developer. A thug and a gentleman. My life force in words "think with a head, love with a heart and hate with a passion"