An Egg-stra Special Invitation

I’m taking a break from serious topics today (Mom, I hope you appreciate the word-play title) to relate a decidedly lighter event that recently occurred.  Yesterday while I was doing pushups in my backyard - it was too hot in my house - I was greeted by a young man at the house next door.  He, like most of the other people in the location, was very interested to meet me and wanted to know why a White guy has the name of Lesego and is living in the township.  After explaining myself, he said that he was supposed to deliver a letter to me from the local librarian, but had accidentally forgotten it on his desk at work.

Apparently, when I made a trip to the library in town a couple weeks back, I made such an impression that the librarian thought I would be an excellent person to serve as judge in an upcoming cooking event.  The letter my neighbor had forgotten was an invitation asking if I would serve as culinary arbiter.  The request was duly delivered today on the municipality’s letterhead and everything.  It reads:

Magareng Municipality

To: Lesego Spencer

15 October is World Egg Day which is celebrated by individuals and organisations world wide.  Magareng Library will be promoting its cookery books as part of the celebration of the day.  We take this opportunity to invite you as one of our judges of the cooking competition that is scheduled as follows:

Date: 13 October 2011

Venue: Warrenton library hall

Time: 12:H00

Your assistance will be highly appreciated

Yours truly,

R. Riley

Librarian

Now, I’m sure my more perceptive readers picked up on the fact that World Egg Day is October 15 but that the date listed for my judging skills to be displayed is October 13.  I think this is a typo but am not entirely sure.  A call will have to be made tomorrow morning to ensure that I do not neglect my responsibilities as Egg-taster Egg-straordinaire (ok, last word-play.  I promise.  Blame my mom for instilling such orthographic humor).

Speaking of words, that provides a nice segue into today’s South African English word of the day:

tuck shop - a small informal store, many times run out of someone's house, that sells basic items such as bread, eggs, and soda

Example: Lesego, will you go around the corner and get some bread from the tuck shop?