Scene: Two Peace Corps volunteers, PACO and TESS, are waiting at the local hitch-hiking post. A local woman, DINEO, is sitting at a table selling fruit, sweets, and ice pops. A local man, SMISH, approaches.
Note: Translated from Setswana.
PACO and TESS: Dumela Rra.
SMISH: Le kae?
PACO and TESS: Re teng, Rra. Le kae?
SMISH: Re teng. Ke kopa madi.
PACO: Ah, sorry Rra. I just spent all of my money on ice pops.
SMISH: But I need a smoke. I have not smoked since this morning.
PACO: You should not smoke Rra! It is bad for you.
TESS: You will live longer if you do not smoke.
SMISH: Me, I am 38 years old. Right now. I am fine.
PACO: But you never know man, what will happen tomorrow. If you stop smoking maybe you will live to be 58, or 68.
SMISH: I finished standard 7. I started smoking and now it is life to me.
TESS: Rra, do you have a wife?
SMISH: Yes.
TESS: Women, they do not like smoking.
TESS mimics vomiting onto the ground. SMISH stops and thinks with a genuinely concerned look on his face.
SMISH: Some of them do.
PACO: Dineo! Do women like smoking?
DINEO: Smoking? Noooo!!
TESS: Ah, Rra! See? Ke boamaruri!
SMISH: But some of them do.
End scene.
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