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Entire Conversation Switches Topics Without Warning

This is satire. Characters and scenarios are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, statements, or events is used for commentary and entertainment purposes.

SANDTON — A Thursday coffee meeting between two consultants that had spent 24 minutes on quarterly strategy shifted abruptly to the discussion of a mutual friend’s new dog, followed by load shedding, followed by a restaurant in Franschhoek, with no participant objecting to or noticing the transitions.

The situation continues to develop.