Sunday, May 04, 2008

Overheard

Sometimes you don't mean to eavesdrop but some people do talk so loudly on their cellphones.

"If you commit suicide, the problem is this, it would leave me dead."

I would have thought the problem is that it would leave the person who committed suicide dead.

The guy on the phone was black, and speaking with an African accent. I've had Nigerian friends who would be spitting and snarling at each other till you think that it was a blood feud involving the virtue of their womenfolk when actually they were having a conversation about the weather. It's just the inflection of their speech that makes you think they're having a fight.

So I don't know if this African guy was joshing with whoever he was talking to or if he was having a serious existentialist problem.

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