Settling Matters
When you make an instant pudding, you empty the contents of the bag into a large pudding-bowl. You then add the required amount of milk. Then you mix and stir the ingredients well. Once the mixture is the right texture, you then place the bowl in the fridge overnight, and tomorrow morning you will have a nice pudding set in the bowl. The nicest part is the anticipation with which you await your feast…
The Future
You make an instant cake in the following manner; you mix all the required ingredients in a bowl, to a smooth texture. You then empty the content thereof into two baking trays; the size of the two halves of the cake. The mixture has to be subjected to a period of intense heat; the baking process. This one does by inserting the trays into a hot oven, and closing the door. The door may not be opened for the period of time required to bake the cake, otherwise the cake will flop. Without the heat and baking process, there would be no cake. Once the cake comes out of the oven, it put together with filling, and iced with icing sugar. Voila; you have a delicious cake…
Sore loser
A baby in a cot might sometimes throw a severe tantrum. For no apparent reason he will just start kicking and screaming and crying. This is order to get his way; whatever it is that he might want. A casual observer has no idea what the performance is about. A baby’s tantrum has nothing to do with reason and logic; it is all based on emotion. He can't even keep track of his own problems, but he just carries on regardless. It can carry on for hours, if he is not pacified by some motherly figure, calming and soothing him…
(Good examples of this phenomenon are Robert Mugabe, and this idiot on my case with his electronics. His a fucking little manipulator.)
Senseless
The most irritating thing in the world is a small kid banging away with a stick on a tin; his improvised drum. It is the most goddamn awful racket in the world. He does this for some unknown psychological reason. The racket is so bad, that it is soon put to a stop, and the child is then told to occupy his time in a more civilized fashion; such going to his room, tiding up, and playing with his toys.
Liberation Ideology
Some years ago we used to sell cheap chinese imports on the street. In our case it was clothes. Some were fake namebrands, and were refered to by some of our clients as 'Fong Kong'. This means a fake, and a cheap imitation, on the street. They would buy them nonetheless as they were cheap compared to the retailer. My stance in this regard was; 'if you have to sell this shit in order to make a living, at least don't rip the people of in the process; ask them a fair price.' Every so often the distributer of these goods would be raided and bust by the police. One always has to be alert in this game, whichever end of it you're on...
Liberation Ideology
When one wishes to have an ice cold glass of orange juice, one has one of two options. You can either buy real 100% orange juice, which is expensive, or one could go for the cheap imitation orange juice.
Local politics
I had a gardener a few years ago, that was a decent chap, and did an honest day’s work. With my supervision, he kept the garden in pristine condition. There was never a speck of dirt around the place once he had finished his job, and the whole lawn was always neatly manicured. He could manage any task I entrusted on him. After he had stopped working for me I went without a gardener for a while, then recently, I got a new bloke. He does not do as good a job as the man I had unfortunately, and now the front of the garden looks o.k., but the back garden is a complete mess. He manages to trim the lawn, but does not get round to removing all the weeds for me. A result the garden is in a bit of a state. I don’t know whether I should let him go, but knowing myself, I’ll just keep him on in any case. Where do you find good help these days?
Some people
Hyenas in the wild might sometimes come across a small helpless antelope. This is when nature kicks in. They turn into a savage pack of animals, and the beast in them are aroused. The will savage the little animal, and will tear it apart quickly in their feeding frenzy. This is the nature of the beast.
Busting Bronco's
Out in the West you get wild horses called mustangs. If you want to tame such a horse, you have to ride it rodeo-style until it is broken in. This is a wild ride. Once the job is done, the horse is as tame and manageble as any other...
Equality
If a man wishes to make a bowl of tomato soup, he walks into the green grocer. Here he has selection of tomatos; Class A, B and C. If he is a connissuer, he will insist on Class A tomatos for his soup. Joe Soap will be content with Class C tomatos, as this suits his pocket, and as far he is concerned; 'A tomato is just a tomato.' Regardless of your requirements, the tomatos are nonetheless Classed A through to C.
Equality
If a man wishes to make a bowl of fruit salad, he walks into the fruit shop and chooses a variety of fruit. Bananas, apples, pears, oranges and a few cherries. Back home, he will slice and dice the fruit, and mix them all in a bowl. Life is like this; it is full of variety, and this gives it an exotic and pleasing taste.
Respect
While in traffic one day, a guy driving passed gave my father the middle finger for some altercation they had just had in their vehicles while driving down the street. He was travelling in the opposite direction from us. My father was man’s man, and didn’t take much nonsense. True to his nature he turned the car around and followed the man to the parking-lot of a nearby shopping centre. They both got out, and my father inquired from him in a fashion that was unique to him, what the man’s problem was. The man suddenly had no problem with my father at all, and was convinced he hadn’t done anything, least of all made obscene gestures at my father. Thus the matter was quickly settled. He was lucky my dad didn’t give him a fat ear in the process; otherwise he would have battled to operate in real-time afterwards, in any case…
War & Violence
If you have a child that bangs a door in the house continually, and you loose it, and you want to punish him – you do the following; you take the child and make him bang the door continually until he himself cannot handle it anymore. If you catch your child smoking cigarettes, you do the same. You lock him in his room with a whole packet of cigarettes, and he does not come out until he has smoked up the whole packet. This is the way you deal with incorrigible behaviour.
Just plain wrong
Sometimes when you're walking down the street, you get a little dog that comes out of its garden, and yaps at your ankles. It is persistent, and tries to bite you. It just keeps yapping away like a maniac at you. A dog like that needs a good kick...
