T minus 40 days

[Tania Payne]

January 26th 2009, 03:10

It turns out that we’ll have to fork out as good as 500 quid on pumping ourselves full of tropical diseases in the name of modern medicine in order, they tell us, not to die during the trip. Hepatitises A and B, yellow fever, typhoid, cholera, meningitis and rabies for starters. The guy makes it difficult to tell if he is ripping us off, deliberately anyway, by disguising his calculations with a cloak of incompetence. His pricing seems both random and expensive and I was glad I'd written down the prices given to us over the phone. And he says disconcerting things like “Was that the rabies jab I just gave you? Or meningitis?” When we go back for our last course of rabies with a garnish of Japanese encephalitis, I might bite him.

[Tania Payne]

Thank you! I hope your day was funnier than expected.

[Sam Scribe]

I have barely woken up, but surely this will be the funniest thing I read today.