The optimistic salesman

Many things can be bought on the street of Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. There are plenty of street food sellers with tasty delights such as savoury snacks, coconut cakes, grated ice pulp and pineapple with chilli sauce. Temporary tables are adorned with clothes for all ages and household goods from expired super-glue and batteries to electric fly swats. Sellers wander about with a few nightshirts, a bag of socks or watches of unknown origin and the likelihood of components inside unknown. One wonders how they make much of a living. These were surpassed in their optimism by a chap trying to sell a couple of pairs of ski gloves. Reports last week of never known before snowfalls in the Rift Valley of Africa, might have encouraged this enterprise, however with temperatures in Port Louis at 25degC in the winter I am doubtful of this venture succeeding.