What to do when you are stuck for several hours in the wasteland of the soul that is an international airport? Answers: Submit to the sensory swamp of duty-free shopping for stuff you neither need nor want that is outrageously more expensive than the same thing in the real world; Consume below-average food and drink at stratospherically above average prices; Try to avoid all the sneezing‚ sniffing‚ snotting people who are also doing so as you do so. Wonder how anyone survives a trip to the horrific smokers’ lounge; Consider getting a massage. Feel your muscles go rigid with tension when you discover how much that would cost you; and Go to the loo; Repeat all of the above. Perhaps because they had run out of things to do‚ they were bored‚ or had forgotten to bring a pack of cards‚ SA ended up occupied — and not only in the loo sense — when they stopped over in Singapore on their way back from Australia. What did they do? They watched cricket. And‚ to hear Faf du Plessis tell it‚ they...
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