‘I made a mistake in my calculation’
he said. ‘The world will actually end on 21 October
2011.’
Well, at 89-years-old he probably suspects
that his personal world would end before then, and in the
meantime, for at least the next five months, he could still
enjoy the moola and fame that his supporters all over the
world bestows upon him.
Personally, if I had been in Camping’s
shoes, I would have been prepared. I would have lots of
fun choosing randomly from a list of creatively prepared
responses come 22 May 2011.
Here are a few:
1. I was talking
metaphorically. Did you really think that I meant the world
would literally end? How silly.
2. It happened
in a nanosecond. Did you miss it?
3. I was misquoted.
What I said was ‘The world may end on the 21st.’
The media of course got it wrong and said ‘The world
will end on the 21st May.’
4. This is
not the first time God has played a practical joke on me.
5. Spend,
my friend. I said spend.
6. The world
did end. All the good people have gone to heaven. You and
I, my friend, are now in hell.
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Instead,
the unprepared Harold’s only response when he
opened his door on Sunday morning and saw that the
world was still there was…..
‘WTF?’
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I can also think of quite a few retorts
had I been Johannes Coetzee.
Coetzee, confident that the world would indeed end on 21
May, booked himself and 80 of his South African co-followers
into the Devonshire Hotel in Braamfontein for their last
few days on Earth.
‘May as well go out in style’
he reckoned.
According to Shaun O’Reilly of the
hotel’s HR department, the group had booked 50 rooms
and had not let hotel management know when they were planning
to vacate them.
A single room (without meals) at the hotel costs R689 and
a double room costs R1178 per night.
If I was Johannes, when presented with the
bill on Monday 23rd, I would say…….
Nah. I leave that up to you.
Have fun.
