You must have a sense of
humor.... which reminds me.....
Back when I was at Ile Du Pin... where the prison was in
New Caledonia... I made friends with
the local people...
One day....
They asked me where I came from... and why I was alone...
I explained that I'd not yet found a lady to share my life... but was going back to my ancestral homeland....
Russia to find one...
Intrigued... they asked if I had any one in mind...
As it happened... I did.. about 500 of them... but one girl stood out...and she was from St. Petersburg..
Turned out she was curious about the tropics and what people were like there...
When I mentioned this.. my local friends made a suggestion... Why not send my girl friend one of their
children so she could see for herself what they were like !!
But that's expensive!! I said...
No... not the way we do it ...!
How do you send
children?
WE MAIL THEM !!!
Mail them???
Yes MAIL THEM !!
But won't they get hungry and thiirsty???
No problem... we give them several coconuts for drinks... and some bananas, too..
Also, we put a legend on them, which says to :"please feed and
water this child"
But do you put them into a box??
NO, NO, NO...! NEVER !!
Huh???
We just put stamps on them and in the mail they go...!!
Some time later...
They introduced Angelique to me... she's the one on the left in the
photo...
We took her to Madame Monique, the postmistress... who duly weighed her .. and calculated the postage...
Which was 200 Euros...
Since the largest stamp she had was 25 euro cents, she
sold us 800 stamps...
Angelique behaved beautifully, as we stamped her up.... til finally she was covered with them..
THEN...
She just had to show her friends... and like island children... the first thing they did was romp in
the
lagoon.... where all the stamps floated away...
We never did find all of them...
INDY