Tamara wrote:

<Quite often, the queuing took hours (nobody wanted the morning's bread
in the afternoon, so we all stood and waited for the afternoon
delivery), and people (mostly women) talked -- on any subject from
personal illnesses/misfortunes and birth control methods, to jokes, to
politics, to...>

This is one of the reasons why it's thought best to install a communal tap
in villages in Africa to improve the lives of the women who used to have to
walk miles to get water rathan than try to give individual houses their own
water supply. The younger ones learn all sorts of things from the older ones
by listening to the older ones talking while they're queueing to fill their
water vessels.

Jean in Poole

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