The government of India has been for some time trying to
supply lavatories to every house in the country. Of course they didn’t bother
to ask their electorate if they wanted toilets
in their houses. They don’t. They are turning their toilets into cupboards, and
going out to shit in the fields as they have always done. So in its wisdom the
government has sent out officials to patrol favourite open-air shitting places
and force all who approach to go home and shit indoors.
I am reminded of the old lady in this little Greek island
who, some years ago whispered confidentially in a shocked tone ‘Do you know,
some of these foreigners actually shit inside their own houses.’
You couldn’t make it up, but it’s true, and perhaps explains
why the Lenovo company has just invented a mobile ’phone which takes
photographs which, they say, ‘Enhance reality’.
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