A Bullet In My Meat..
Monday, August 18, 2014
Once again, it crossed my mind today as I sit ponderting over my take away lunch. Only this is not fast food from an up market restaurant or any known fast-food outlet; today I bought my food from the street. On any ordinary day, I bring my packed lunch from home. In fact, almost all my colleagues do that on a daily basis, without fail.
Lunch time is always a spectacle and a mad rush as everyone makes a bee line for the only microwave at work. But of course there will always be the few who don’t pack their lunces from home: the ones who will frown in the mornings at packed lunches but by noon there is a different tune- ‘tla ke utlwe stoki hoo’.(let me try a small piece).
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