The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013)
“The land had been a haven for snakes and there were still a few who had survived its clearing. This came home to them when, two days after they had moved in, a cobra was discovered behind the washing basket in the bathroom, to be removed, hissing in anger, at the end of a long pole left behind by the builders. Grace would have preferred it had Phuti despatched the snake altogether with blows from the pole, but he did not believe in killing snakes.
‘If we killed all the snakes in Botswana,’ ...he pointed out, ‘then we would be in serious trouble with rats. We would end up asking the snakes to come back.’ ‘I do not want all the snakes in the country killed,’ said Mma Makutsi. ‘I want those in my garden, and now in my house, to be got rid of. That is all, Rra.’ ‘I am getting rid of him,’ said Phuti.
This did not impress her. ‘But he will come back. That snake is thinking: this man is putting me out, but I have my own ideas on that.MoreLess
‘If we killed all the snakes in Botswana,’ ...he pointed out, ‘then we would be in serious trouble with rats. We would end up asking the snakes to come back.’ ‘I do not want all the snakes in the country killed,’ said Mma Makutsi. ‘I want those in my garden, and now in my house, to be got rid of. That is all, Rra.’ ‘I am getting rid of him,’ said Phuti.
This did not impress her. ‘But he will come back. That snake is thinking: this man is putting me out, but I have my own ideas on that.MoreLess
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