Finally the day arrived of our little centres Christmas market. It was arranged by our non-existing centre manager and resulted in a non-existing Christmas market… A whole of 3 stalls arrived and 4 jumping castles. The stalls consisted of one with Chinese knock off T-shirts; one with costume jewellery and one with 20 cup cakes. The jumping castles were setup at the weirdest places resulting in no kids playing on them. Just before closing time I saw some township kids playing on one of them. At least someone got some value for money! The top seller of the day was the cup cake stand. They sold out within minutes.
And then there was the DJ; playing techno music on ENOURMOUS speakers, blaring through the whole centre. We benefited from the disaster outside as visitors came cowering in our shop, trying to get away from whatever was screeching over the enormous speakers outside. I don’t think any visitor is going to come back next year or the year after, or the year after, or the year after…
Just when you think you have seen everything, you haven’t. The “Slowveld” keeps on surprising me, and not always in a good way…