Some Interesting Stories

So I though I would write a few things that have happend the last few weeks that you all might find entertaining.  The other day I went to go buy some chickens and eggs.  First of all we get a lot of guests that won't eat chicken here because they are afraid of contamination.  One thing to consider is there is a decent chance that chicken you were eating was running around an hour before that.  So fresh chicken is probally healthier then the preserved/frozen ones at home.  So I got my chickens and were waiting on the eggs, which they sell in boxes of 10 here.  It ended up taking the better part of an hour to get my eggs.  I asked why, and was told they only had nine left and had been waiting on a chicken to lay number ten.  I left a short time after with my ten eggs, thanks to some hard work by mother hen :)

 

I was reading the newspaper here, and there is usually a good article or two in it, and one I will recap for you here.  In a town in the eastern island of Malatia they just installed public phones.  Now the town is calling for the phone company to provide training and awarness of phone use to help correct the problems they have been having.  

 

For instance, when told to hang up, one man hung the phone receiver from its chord, which left the line open

 

Another caller tried to use the phone, and someone informed him you need a phone card, so they bought a phone card, and returned to the phone in which they became very agitaed and yelling at the phone, all they got was a beeping, no one would talk to them.  A passerby informed them on dialing the phone.

 

Another person received a phone call on the phone, and just stood there silent (but nodding there head).  The caller asked the person to pass the phone to the next person in the queue.  That person informed the caller, that the person had been nodding yes/no to the questions being asked.  They then informed the person they had to speak in the phone, that the caller could not see the head movements.

 

One man was found standing for hours outside of a shipping container, when someone asked what he was doing, he told them he was expecting a phone call and waiting for the office to open so he could use the phone.  They happily then showed him to the phone that was next to the container.

 

While this kind of thing is not typical to most people here, it does point out what we take for granted and use so daily that is seems like common sense, when we really learn it even though it may be at an early age.

 

Luke