the corner office

The funniest thing I've seen on TV in a while was a filler on BBC news about the big old clocks which all have to be changed for the end of daylight savings time this weekend. The BBC went around asking people whether they actually relied on these old clocks on old buildings, and one young woman said something along the lines of "I don't trust them... but that's probably because where I come from they never work." She sounded very South African... after Ronwen and I stopped laughing, I felt a little homesick. I don't know if many people would understand why that's so funny. But it is.