Mundabor has an interesting post, Christmas Madness . It is well worth reading, and reminds me of something similar, as long ago as 1988.
On Christmas Eve, at the brokerage where I worked we all decided to go out for lunch at a restaurant somewhere in Knightsbridge. There were about ten of us.
We were eating when suddenly a uniformed policewoman came to our table, and demanded to know who owned car number ******, which she said was illegally parked outside. A friend said it was his, but was at home in Winchester.
She then stripped, singing some secular ditty as she did so: not a real policewoman, but a “stripogram”, poor woman, and clearly a mother, because she had stretch-marks.
The friend (an Anglican, and, incidentally, a former S.A.S colonel) and I immediately left, our lunch half-eaten.
The experience overshadowed Christmas. In any half-decent, half civilized country, such work as this poor woman did would be unnecessary and illegal, and her employers executed.
2 comments:
Bit harsh with executing her employers methinks, although I can think of a fair few countries where she would be executed.
Chris - I do not, seriously, regard capital punishment as a excessively harsh penalty for murder, rape, pimping, child molestation, or (as I hope one day) performing an abortion.
I am not with the post VII Church on this.
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