thanks for your cuncurrance rdr and I am sure that itsbrokenagain will forgive the 4 letter words that were directed to him/her...because in fact he is right, this thread was put up here to have a bit of a laugh about the absurdities in this subcontinent and he too is dreaming about a return to civilisation...inshallah...
so in a discussion with my neighbor the other day, the (only) supermarket in town comes up..."oh you mean the one opposite the courthouse" ... no no, he says "the one courthouse opposite..."