Television set rescues kids from certain death!

It  was a pretty good argument for not paying one's debts I must say. 

Hurricane Harry, the housekeeper for M & M's house in Zambia, so named by the tenents for his dazzling lack of speed, had borrowed money from M & M  for maize stocks during the last rains and was paying it back slowly month by month.  I was collecting it in an envelope because they live in Tanzania now and Hurricane continues to work for the tenents in the house 

I was about to leave for Arusha and take the money to its rightful owners.

Always a reliable man, serious and responsible, not given to trivialities, this time Hurricane shuffled up rather apologetically and announced that the last couple of installments would not be forthcoming because..... 

“I had to buy a television set.”

“Um. Oh......Kay...yee...”

“Yes, it was necessary. You see there is a neighbour down the road with a television set in his house and my children and others go to that house after school in the afternoon to watch television.”

Now as everyone knows, after 5.00 pm  there is always the danger of elephants that have crossed over the river from inside the Park, marching towards the villages to night raid millet crops, steal from mango trees etc.

 

With impeccable logic he continued;

“By the time they have finished watching television, it is almost dark and very dangerous to walk home on that road, the elephants are everywhere." 

Well yes OK true …. they also come past my studio frequently, obviously on their way to terrorize young television watchers....

So Hurricane used the money he owed to buy a television set for his own house to avoid his children being trampled to death by elephants on their return journey home from the neighbours.

Arriving in Arusha I explained that the last of the money wasnt returned but used on an essential item to avoid his children being killed...

Well quite.

Ya caint argue with that now, can you?