Duty

[poliphilo]

A Pakistani visitor congratulated me yesterday on having fathered three children. You have "done your duty by your nation," he said.

I laughed good-humouredly.

Being around Pakistanis is like being around a bunch of Victorian aunts and uncles. I tread carefully for fear of causing outrage.

Comments

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Surely the UK has an equivalent of the USSR's "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal? Of course, you're 7 kids shy of earning that distinction.

And you're not female.

Better get busy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

On which- the fathering or the sex change?

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

7 more kids?
damn.
that's a whole lot of father brown you're gonna be reading ;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I'll pass....