Fairlady Nov/Dec 2024

The story of Patric Gagne, who is a diagnosed sociopath and has written a book about it (page 50), is interesting – mainly because sociopathy is one of those conditions, like ‘narcissism’, that we use to describe people without knowing what it really means. Patric knew that there was something different about her, that she was way more detached than the people around her. She tried to fill that emptiness with the thrill she got from behaving badly: breaking and entering (she did steal, but it was mainly to snoop), and episodes of violence and destruction. A functioning sociopath, Patric has learnt to become a part of society, more or less; but even so, her utter fearlessness is oddly enviable. Another fearless woman (definitely not a sociopath, just so we’re…

WINNING LETTER More scams After reading your excellent article on scamming in the July/August 2024 issue, I felt compelled to add another category to the ever-growing list of commonplace scams: job offers. Retrenched last year, I started the rather soul-destroying job search and found that the environment was rife with scams. The various job-seeking groups I belong to are full of comments from heartbroken people who have parted with their money after being ‘guaranteed’ a job. Here are some examples: 1. You’re emailed an urgent request (a deadline is usually attached) to apply for a job for which you’ve been shortlisted. It all seems so real that it doesn’t immediately occur to you that if you hadn’t already applied, you couldn’t have been shortlisted. By now you’ve applied for dozens…

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A real mouthful If you’re looking at the picture and wondering what the deal is with that half a cookie, let me just say this: it’s a miracle there was anything to photograph at all. It was all very nearly just a plate of crumbs. My husband came home with a box of six, and I thought they’d last a few days, but the next thing I knew we were down to two… and-a-half. I don’t know what to tell you except that you have to try the éclair one. And the Nutella one. And also the milktart one. And if you put them in the microwave for 30 seconds, they go all warm and gooey. A Classic Cookie Box with six gourmet cookies costs R275; they’re all home-made by…

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