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THE CHINA MATE NOVEMB
"Modom, You Are So Very, Very
ANNOYING!"
When you're in the shop-every-hair framing their faces.
thing's grand
The girl glides across the carpet mine like that.
to you with a charming smile. She It's an impossible job to make says: "Yes, madam" and "No, ma- yours lost anything like the picture. dam." and "That looks charming She knows it. She tries to tell you on you, madam, and sends you so.
away happy. But when you've gone But will you listen? No! You're
she thinks of all the things she paying, you think, and you have! would have liked to have said your own way. So she does it as
Sometimes she feels she would you want it have liked to scream at you. That's And when it's done and drying, when you drift about
at the place you wriggle out of the drier, decide fingering this and trying on that you don't like it, set up a terrific and in the end making her "take a wail-and she has to do it all over Swop **:
..
again
Translated, that means you drift Such a pity it doesn't suft me, settle out of the shop empty-handed, mur- isn't it? you say, as you muring something about coming back comfortably for her to start back another day.
at the beginning again.
She's polite.
She knows you never will of course, and would much rather you
said so...
But no.
You stand first on one foot. Then you stand on the other.
"Well with your face, you know, madam, you do need something dif- ferent
That's what she says. But she doesn't mean what you think she
Boy! Boy
Then you put your head on one means. side and say well, really, you don't know. It might do, and then, again, it might not What does she think?
There you go, yelling at the "boy" who serves you with your
She thinks you're a blessed nuis-lunch, when you can see it is quite "ance and wishes you'd go
impossible for him to attend
to
She wants to attend to someone you. who does mean to buy something. And when he does come with your And she wishes you'd say out-food, before he is well away from right that you don't like anything you, you often say: the shop can show you But
She still smiles at you but only because it's part of her job!!
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"That man's a fool-I can see it from his face."
Well he knows he's forgotten the mustard but that doesn't quite
The girl who does your hair is at show mental deficiency. an even worse disadvantage.
She can't even make faces at your back because you'd see her through the mirror at your front.
You take photographs to her of exciting looking beauties with exotic
And if he does seem a bit lack- ing at times, it's often because you're driving him that way.
Sometimes you fuss around and can't decide what you want to eat.
He has to wait while you
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The shopgirl can't answer you back when you're rude to her.
The hairdresser can't rub soap into your eyes when you waste her time and make her stay late.
The "boy" can't sling a plate of soup at you when you point to a flaw in the china, and say it's dirt and bok at him as though it's his fault.
But they can all think what they like it's a good thing for your superiority complex that you're no thought-reader!
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