Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Typical...

I had another little funny cultural experience today.

An elderly gentleman came into the office this afternoon. He was looking for some fonts so that he could type his language on his computer. Good enough, I'm just the person to talk to about installing programs and fonts on computers around here. Anyways, as I'm working on his computer, he starts talking about "producing". And when someone from his ethnic group starts talking about "producing", he's not talking book production, or oil production or any other kind of production. He's talking about what happens after the cows have exchanged hands and a man and a woman... well... start producing. For some reason, this elderly man decided he needed to explain to me the African concept of birth control (basically, there is none) and how important it is to produce.

So, now I know all there is to know about production. From a random elderly gentleman who asked me for computer help.

At least he didn't offer to help me start producing...

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