INDUSTRIAL

Just the other day I drove into an exhaust repair shop because my car was waking the dead. As I sat down a young man named Gert quickly checked the car and told me what was wrong and before I could ask about repair options, he had a welding machine in his hand and was firing away. I was very impressed by this because it was after 5pm and he just wanted to get the job done and was not worried about leaving. He took his sweet time to do an excellent job. HE showed serious commitment. Re thoka ba go tshwana le Gert!

Gert quickly reminded me of another work man named Thabo whom I found hard at work at a tyre repair shop just two weeks ago. He was also very quick to assist me but he had his motives. He wanted to get the job done as quickly as possible so he could leave the shop and go his way. Although he did a thorough job, he spent half the time complaining about too much work coming in the late afternoon when he was ready to leave. I was disappointed in Thabo.

This made me wonder! You see, Gert is a welder by profession and he acts like his job. Welded material lasts a very very long time if not forever. It may take a few minutes to get the job done but the result is ever lasting and because of this is it requires that the artisan be very careful when working because the mistakes could last a long time. So, could this mean then that, when in a relationship, a welder is careful who he chooses to be in a relationship with and could he be as committed to the relationship as metal is when it is welded together? I believe so, otherwise how else would he use all that work experience. Ke raya hela! Nna ke bata ene yo monna; someone to weld us together in a relationship.

On the other hand, I believe that Thabo the tyre repair guy behaves just like a tyre. O thola a kgokologa motshegare othe. O bata go nna a tsamaya o kare o baya ditsha. This is not a good guy at all, unless o mo ngaparela jaaka chappies mo letsatsing. That is the only way you can keep the relationship going. Ga ke bue tshele bagaetsho ke ka ha nna ke bonang ka teng. So, a guy who works with tyres will want to constantly be on the move from relationship to relationship.

There are many guys in the industrial sector. Ba ba agang bone ba itse go aga lelwapa ebile ba godisa lelwapa. Those who work with wood prefer to take their time in a relationship and create works of art. Wood is a very delicate material but can be very beautiful. Mmeti o bona bonte jwa sesana le ha se le se mpe.

So, there are different men in the industrial sector and I could keep going on about them. Question is which one do you prefer ladies? I want a welder because he works with fire and creates great hot fireworks. Imagine how valuable this can be in a relationship. One thing for sure is that an industrial worker does not mind the noise you make when you are nagging because he works with worse noise. So, he is perfect. Ke tsoga ke le ha Broadhurst industrial!

KOKO YA SETSWANA VS NANDOS

As they walked by, I thought how beautiful they looked. In fact, I had no memory of seeing anything so pure in my life. They laughed, had no designer clothes on, no genuine leather shoes on and most definitely no condition of how it should all be. I am talking about two lovers I saw recently in a place west of Molepolole called Kotolaname. It seemed rural but it still had most of the basic necessities.

That said; it made me wonder about my life and my belief in the ideology of love. Lerato la mmannete! You see, most of the romantic love I have felt in my life, was based on the love that I had seen on television watching the Bold and The Beautiful. I am one of ninety percent of urbanites with that life. It is sad but true. I wonder if it would have been different if I had been in a rural place. Of course it would differ, but the question is how? Would I expect less or more of him? Would our sex be better or worse than urban sex? I know sex is sex, but some sex is conditioned. You see it on television, outdoor billboards and even on children’s cartoons. Whether you admit it or not, the way you express your love is largely determined by the media. Se se utwisa bothoko!

Ka go rialo, it made me want to find him, monna wame wa ko dikgaolong. Ke bata yo o ta a reng kere ‘I love you’ a bo a sa thaloganye. A man who believes Mother Nature determines how we love each other, one who gets clues from the wild when it comes to love making. I know you are getting lovely thoughts right now. That is because media conditioning has killed us sexually, with all this foreplay nonsense. When have you ever seen a cow getting foreplay? The reason we cannot enjoy sex without too much effort is because we eat all the wrong foods. Most genetically modified foods had unnatural sex to come about, no wonder we need unnatural things to also come.

I could talk forever about these things and beat about the bush but the question on my tongue is, is rural love better than urban love? How so? I need to know before I get too urban!