slid down the pillar to sit next to him with the morning sun shining right in my eyes. There were just a few coins in his safari-guide hat.
I said, “I didn’t get a job with Kagiso Holdings. How’s that? It’s my birthday and they still didn’t give me a place.”
Aggies made soft sympathetic noises while I told the whole story.
A passing Pick n Pay customer with her trolley overflowing dropped two five-rand coins into his hat. That’s when Aggies spoke.
“God bless you, missus. God shine his face on you and be gracious unto you.”
I said, “Maybe later I’ll go see Bethany.”
“It is good,” he said. “A man must have a woman.” He always says that. Even though Rosie is drunk most of the time. Even though she calls him the C word and the P word. And the K word.
“Yes, a man needs a woman. That is the way the world is,” he said, and he gave me the two five-rand coins for my taxi fare.
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