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HUMOUR

The Lost Opportunity

BY JAMES CLARKE
t was one of those glorious sunny Mert would have explained how she within the hour The Kiss would have
spring days on the Highveld with was taking her dog, Pericles III, to been broadcast on 340 megahertz
Ithe scent of jasmine in the air. She the vet because he was really very or megacycles, whatever, to all
was standing there at the side of the sick and Pericles III would have neighbours and friends.
busy road, nut brown and dressed in verified this by dumping his stomach
little more than a wisp of a sundress contents on the back seat. Then Mert would have told Selwyn
that the capricious morning breeze that she had to be in Sandton for 2022
held against her slim but shapely Mert would have explained an audition for a modelling job by
body. how she was taking ‘Perry’ to a 11am and Selwyn, already two
veterinary doctor friend in Dinwiddie, hours late, would have decided
At her sandaled feet was what sub- Germiston, because he saw to he might as well be hanged for a Admissions
accountant, Selwyn Millburton B.Com, Perry’s medical needs for nothing. sheep as for a lamb and would then
at first took to be dilapidated luggage. have, impetuously, offered to drive
But as he drove past he realised it As long as Selwyn could drop her Mert there.
was in fact a large, shaggy dog. off in downtown she would find her are open!
way from there. But Selwyn could And she would have landed the job
He also realised the young woman not bear to think of this helpless girl and introduced Selwyn to her new
was thumbing a lift. dragging her sick dog to the East employer who would instantly have
Rand so he would certainly have offered Selwyn R100 000 a week to Broadacres Academy
He thought for a moment of stopping offered to drive her there despite the model men’s yachting outfits with
because if ever he had seen a maiden fact that that would make him late Mert in Santorini and Veracruz. High School is designed
in distress this was it. Selwyn always for work and Mr Grantham, his boss,
thought of stopping to give people lifts would give him one of those looks. By now badly in need of money with Constructivist
but usually, by the time he had worked because of petrol costs and steam-
out the complications that could Selwyn would have helped her cleaning the car’s interior, and 2022 Annual learning in mind, with
arise, he was 5km away. And to stop deposit the dog on the pavement probably having lost his job anyway,
suddenly in rush hour traffic would outside the vet and she would have Selwyn would have become swept Tuition Fees movable learning spaces
cause a traffic shunt clean across thrown her slender brown arms up in a world of big money, yachts,
Randburg, extending north as far as around his neck and given him a gorgeous girls, champagne, and Grade 7 that promote
Sidi-bel-Abbes Ext 34. long, warm kiss full of affection and peppermint-flavoured toothpicks. R73 500
gratitude – just as Mrs Herming, Grade 8 R77 500 collaboration and
Selwyn realised that, had he stopped Selwyn’s next door neighbour, None of this would have thrilled his
for her, she would have gratefully drove past. Although nobody ever wife, Millicent, or his Mum. Grade 9 R80 500 integration, with IEB
sunk into the passenger seat beside drives to Dinwiddie early in the
him and told him her name was morning (they only drive from Anyway, Selwyn reached his office For application and registration fees, discounts and curriculum delivery.
Mert. Selwyn never could there), on this occasion Mrs that morning spot on time, as usual. terms, access the fee schedule on our website.
resist girls whose names Herming would have been And as Mr Grantham greeted him
began with M, or even attending a course round with his usual nod, Selwyn would
N and P for that matter, the corner from the vet on have sighed a great shuddering
and also S and T. Advanced Gossiping and sigh of relief.

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