* I said to a young woman in the supermarket carpark today.
I arrived just before lunchtime and the undercover carpark was fairly chocka. After driving around once I spied a carpark a few spaces away from the trolley station.
As I was doing this two young women (I don't know how old they were as nowadays all women look like 'young women' to me) came along and plonked their trolley next to the one that was blocking my parking space which was ... only bloody less than 50 meters away!
I said:
"Hoy! why don't you put the trolley away properly?"They just looked at me, said nothing (probably thinking, as they were born in Waiunuiomata, that there girls are smarter) and walked to their car.
It was then that I shouted out after them, in particular to the one who had been wheeling the trolley:
"you lazy bint!"
This nonplussed them as I doubt that they had heard that expression before or, rather, the word 'bint'. No doubt on their way home they talked about the silly old fart who was talking incomprehensibly.
'Bint' is a word that my dad used often, saying things like "that silly bint" or that old bint up the road". Obviously it was derogatory. He picked this up from his days as a soldier in WW2 in his time spent in Egypt.
Anyway, I feel like I did my job.
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5 comments:
A post! Well done!
I think a lot of these slang expressions are abbreviations of words in foreign languages our dads picked up serving overseas. I think you were a bit lucky that there weight lifting brother wasn't following along out of sight.
Thank you Robert.
With practice your reading skills might reach Donald Trump’s level (see his speech at the Windsor Castle banquet).
You might notice that I referenced ‘bint’ being a slang term picked up by servicemen.
I wasn’t worried about a weight lifting brother as sometimes you just have to call people out for bad or lazy behaviour. Surely as a Christian you would know this.
Robert didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Who knows?
Maybe he'd like red hot pokers up his bum.
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