Sorry – It’s a Short Week

There’s a story which goes about these parts that tells of a bloke who was nailed to some of bits of wood a couple of thousand years ago (give or take), meaning that my pregnant wife can gorge herself on chocolate throughout March and April.
So she says anyway. Personally, I think she made it up simply so that she could gorge herself on chocolate throughout March and April.

And why not?

She’s spread the word about as well. Women all over Cape Town can be seen gorging themselves on chocolate. And wine. And now, we even have a Chocolate Gorging Public Holiday on Friday which means that this is a short week. And that is a superb reason for the level of customer service in this fine city to drop to new lows.

Yes, because Friday isn’t happening in work terms, apparently neither is the rest of the week. If you thought that load-shedding was slowing down the economy, you were right. But it pales into insignificance next to Short Week Syndrome. Deliveries which didn’t make it through when they were due last week, mysteriously won’t be delivered this week either. Why?

“Sorry – it’s a short week, you know?”

Yes, I do, but the first four days are still fair game, are they not?

But it’s hopeless. You can’t fight the system.
Well, you can, but you’ll suffer a humiliating defeat on penalties.

Talking of poor service, a new Cape Town blog has sprung up: Welcome to the Metrosnail – presumably the work of some discontented Cape Town train user. I was looking for fun and amusing comment, but I found none. What I did find was an article about the upgrade of Cape Town station which was cut’n’pasted from a City Council website article from May last year. Cutting edge stuff, then.

Seriously, if you’re going to write a moany, whiney blog; at least put in a bit of effort to make it interesting, relevant and – dare I say it? – original. Don’t just publish rubbish and hope that your leap onto the 2010 bandwagon will be enough to make your blog “cool”.

Of course, you won’t find this blog moaning and grumbling about inconsequential matters. Except today, obviously. But that’s ok, because anything goes in a short week.

15 thoughts on “Sorry – It’s a Short Week

  1. Sorry, I couldn’t comment until I had gotten all of the chocolate off my fingers.
    That site is such a disappointment, especially when there is so much to whine about in terms of the trains. I’ll need more chocolate to soothe my soul.

  2. Hey 6k,Trust it’s been a good friday, am a bit curious, whats the news on the TB vaccine trials in Worcester CP Za? any real hope there?
    Regards
    Dax

  3. Koosh – too much chocolate is a dangerous thing. Believe me. Easter is a hellish time of year.

    Daxk – Have been following the SATVI trials in Worcester with interest. The MVA85A vaccine has worked in trials elsewhere, but vaccinating HIV+ patients with such a strain is a different matter.
    Early days. But hopeful.

  4. My little chocolate bunnies tell me you’re lying. They say they’re good for me. I believe you should end your suffering and throw over all the chocolate in your house 😛

  5. FUNNY HOW THEY TAKE ALL THE GOOD BITS OUT OF THE EASTER STORY LIKE THE BIT ABOUT THE CHOCOLATE EGGS AND HATS WITH DAFFODIL’S BUT TRY AND GET THEM NAILED TO A CROSS AND WILL THEY TRY IT. WILL THEY…..

  6. Thanks for the publicity! 🙂

    I’ve seen the light and removed the cut’n’paste job, but it will return with a bit more originality.

  7. Hope you enjoyed today man, drove past there earlier and it sounded like fun times. Should I expect the toe in the post?

  8. Koosh – Chocolate unicorns?

    STU – He looked great in that daffodil hat too…

    Metrosnail – I think you could go far, believe me. Will pop back from time to time and check up on you. 🙂

    Koosh – Jared… Hmmmm.

  9. Pamela – Still beats last year when we had 4x 4 days weeks in a row. What a nightmare.

    Koosh – I gottem already. And the missus is on company conference, so it’ll just be me and the boy. Carnage.

  10. Koosh – Erm.. not a great plan. She is coming back at some point, I think.

    Metrosnail – Yes. That is brilliant. Thanks for sharing. Koosh is gonna love that…

  11. Tis a total scandal, these chocolate driven shutdowns. I waited a full THREE minutes for my 1st pint on that Friday AND the place opened an hour later than usual , I’m seriously thinking of crossing Beit Bridge and joining the millionaire set!

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