Interest

Scene: Thailand – a good luck coin-chucking wishing-well pond, complete with a 25 year old turtle for extra good luck. Or to be more precise, the promise of long life for the coin chuckers, and not the turtle it would seem.

Why? Well you’d have to be Asian to understand this one. Maybe the idea is to see if you can get the coins to bounce off the turtle’s shell. And if you pull off that feat then magically you will live to a hundred or so.

The turtle has been eating the coins for some time now and just had emergency surgery to remove 5 kgs, or about 1000 coins, from its gut. It was just about to kark it.

Me, I do the same with the washing machine.