https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/stumbled-on/ Recent content in Stumbled-On on A Geek's Life Hugo en Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:24:06 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2013/10/22/african-shop/ Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:24:06 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2013/10/22/african-shop/ <p><a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nido_.jpg"><img alt="Nido_" loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nido_.jpg"></a></p> <p>I am carefully arranging the items in my shopping basket to make room for the <em>1800g</em> tin of milk I have just taken off the shelf when someone to my left blurts out - <em>Brossss.. Your Nidoooo milk no get part 2 o!</em></p> <p>So engaged in that most banal of tasks have I been that I have not noticed him until he has spoken, pretty much directly into my left ear, I might add. When I look up, his face has a <em>vague</em> familiarity to it. I give it a few seconds before I give up trying to place the face, and assume he is someone I have run into at church, or one of the multiplied baby birthdays I have been forced to attend this year. I smile and explain my thinking behind grabbing the big tin - I come to this African shop on the corner of George and Fraser’s only so often, and for what it’s worth I try to make it worth my while.</p>