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Hmmm...
Food hundreds of dollars...
Accommodation hundreds of dollars...
Petrol... will soon be hundreds of dollars
Rains 10 months of the year, freezing cold all year.
Sky polluted, Thames so polluted it's taken 150 years to get a
few meagre fish to survive in it.
Keep writing RIL, it wasn't a great week last week but I'm
feeling much better now.
R.
At
14:31 01-10-00 +0100, you wrote:
> From time to time I am rung by Kiwi
moochers who want
>free accommodation in London. The latest two were
a
>treat.
>
>Both of them were professionals from Auckland
in their
>early thirties.
>
>After they arrived we decided
to get something to eat.
>So out we went to my favourite
restaurant.
>
>The waiter came to take the order and I chose
the
>crown roast, followed by cherries jubilee (an
old
>favourite) along with an earthy but not
>overly-friendly
Chilean red and finishing with thick
>Brazilian
coffee.
>
>The waiter then turned to the Kiwis. "Just
water
>please", they replied. What an
embarrassment.
>
>Out came my meal which I attacked with gusto
while the
>Kiwis had water. Apparently they couldn't afford
food.
>I thought about tossing them a celery stick each
but
>instead launched into a speech about
economies.
>
>"You can't come from a rice and potatoes
economy to a
>crown roast economy and expect to eat proper food",
I
>said.
>
>They pulled out a calculator (they were
accountants)
>and we determined that the cost of my meal
(including
>tips) was the equivalent of an average week's wages
in
>banana-land. Each tasty bite would take nearly two
>hours
for the average kiwi to earn.
>
>Feeling guilty I shouted them a
carton of Chinese
>(moggy fried rice) on the way home and left
them
>munching contentedly at the kitchen table.
>
>Given
they were saving hundreds of banana dollars on
>accommodation I
thought they could have shouted me.
>
>As they curled up in
their sleeping-bags on my living
>room floor, I thought this must be
what it feels like
>to be a Texan married to a Mexican and having all
the
>wet-back rellies turn up penniless.
>
>Lastly, I told
them a bed-time story about currencies,
>interest rates, GDP and
economic collapse. The one
>where Cinderella (New Zealand) never gets
the prince
>but ends up working in a sweat-shop with a fag
hanging
>out of her mouth.
>
>They smiled; happy to have a
roof to sleep under as I
>turned out the light. Bless their peasant
hearts.
>
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