Lindy

We had a new sampler called Lindy. She was an older lady, and South African. Now call me rascist, but white south Africans usually annoy the hell out of me. They seem to have a smug arrogance about them and always seem to know better. But not Lindy......or at least so I thought.

With her accent, blonde hair and kind motherly persona she started off seeming like the type of woman I could imagine saving orphaned leopard cubs and setting them free at a later date with a tear in her eye.

Then something changed. The accent got more annoying, the motherlyness became overbearing, she did know better. She morphed from some leopard cub raising born free movie star to the type of woman who I could imagine taking pot shots at dirty kaffirs from the back of an elephant.

She also had an unusual preoccupation with where as much PPE (personal protectective equipment) as possible. One would imagine you were removing toxic waste sludge form the mine, not samples of dirt.