they called us out the blue real clandestine like and asked each one of us to report to the the institution a week on. I must admit the schadenfruede had a certain cloak and dagger apppeal. Bit that is besides the point, which is........... any who so at the appointed date i and rest of our merry band arrived 2 hours early. An hour later we were being asked for a thumb print and a retinal scan to go with bank details, blood type HIV/AIDS status and the like. The n we had to wait aand wait while our names were read out one by one and each was given a code name and number and asked to follow this condi rice look alike through a secret door way which opened into a hall with magnificent arches and wood finishes that must have been even more impressive 45 years ago.
This is the drill you sit opposite a panel of talking heads with all sorts of papers probably bearing your details and you are asked what who where and why of this current predicament.Luckily i have been here before so it was a breeze even got some of them to laugh out loud when they asked, me i was here. Apart from the intriguing call a week ago, the voice on the other end was quite seductive across between Whoopi and the robot from 2001: A space Oddyssey,i forget the name.
After the q&A which lasted a full 20 minutes i was passed on to the next phase which was a physical, which began with3 days of sleep deprivation while watching the Sound of Music over and oer and over again.Which was fine cause am naturally an insomniac specially with results pending. At one point i even asked them to switch cahannels to Africa Magic for my kind of movies made in Nigeria, Ghana, SA and Uganda. But they did me one better and showed us me and a buch of other willing participants, some sex-ed videos complete with charts and stop go animation as well as voice over narration by Ellen Sir Leaf look alike.
Some time later they turned it all offf and presented us with a sheet of paper on which we signed and we were led into the lobby to the cheers of our peeers who had just gone thru or organised the initiation or rites of passage.
Welcome to the institution, you guys are alright.
