My first Annual General Meeting was...

...interesting and utterly boring at the very same time!


Interesting because it was my first, and concurrently my first visit to a resort the existence of which I only became aware of weeks earlier.

Utterly boring because the six or so minutes it took to pass the seven resolutions tabled failed to discuss the most pressing issue : a restructuring of the company!

It was performed with the mechanical methodicity of a typewriter.

Anyway, the lunch spread was very ordinary, and not in great quantity either.Fortunately, not many shareholders turned up.

I was told by the company registrar that this was the usual style of companies in this part of the world!

Anyway, I chatted up enough people to get 2 offers of a lift back to my neck of the woods, and ended up following a rather grouchy-looking woman probably pushing sixty driving a rather dirty-looking car.

I was eminently grateful though, and after thanking her, walked to the familiar shops of my neighbourhood, buying some cherries and a newspaper from the money I had saved from not needing to hire a cab!