service please

I have always had a strange relationship with waitrons. I am a cheapskate (student budget) with expensive taste(so to speak). When I have money I grab a bunch of my buddies and we head out on a nite on the town...thats normal right? The tip is the trickiest part of the whole exercise. I always end up being annoyed with the waitrons for either being too attentive or for ignoring us. I can never figure out which annoys me more. The waiter who comes to the table after each bite to ask "u ladies still ok" or the one who teleports himself to space and only reappears when we start straining our necks trying to get his/her attention?

we are living in interesting times

South Africa is the place to be at the moment. If you are a filmmaker or a shady underworld operative (that is). I think there are some film-makers out there who can't believe their luck. Think about it for a minute, we have a future president with a shady criminal record for starters. Can you imagine what it is going to be like once Jacob "baby oil" Zuma becomes president of the country, with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Tony Yengeni in charge of policy? I mean hardly a month in Luthuli house and they have already disbanded the Scorpions..can it get any worse? But wait this is only the beginning. The of course we have Jackie Selebi, remember him? He is the suspended police commissioner who resigned from his job as Interpol boss after details of his "friendship" with shady people like Glenn Agliotti came to light.And then of course we have everyone's pet peeve Eskom. I am suprised that the electricity hasn't gone out while I'm writing this post. Maybe someone forgot to pull the switch for my area. All of a sudden electricity is no longer a right but a luxury. The most shocking thing of all is that no-one has been fired. In fact I'm willing to bet anything that these idiots got fat christmas bonusses last year. All this would would make a juicy script for a movie (Based unfortunately on reality) I'm thinking Oscar material here. Now if only I could find myself a Nigerian filmmaker to help me churn this movie out before someone else steals my brillant idea. I think il get cracking on 3 separate books in the meantime...one on Eskom, the next on Zuma and his cronies and one on Selebi. Maybe I'l make enough money to affort a generator and a few solar pannels for my house...Damn Eishkom!!!!!