在MMA Ramotswe看来，一切似乎都等待着，除了政府税务员和召唤时，它来了，离开了这个世界。您无法与其中任何一个的代理人争论：您付款，然后去了。但是我只是在等待名单上……不，这些事情没有等待清单……
(Everything, it seemed to Mma Ramotswe, had a waiting list-except the government taxman and the call, when it came, to leave this world. You could not argue with the agents of either of these: you paid, and you went. But I am just on the waiting list…No, there is no waiting list for these things…)