People in Gozo no longer feel safe inviting a random stranger to share a bath with them, according to Gozitan PN MP Alex Borg.
Addressing a political activity in Sannat, Borg said that up until a few years ago it was completely normal in Gozo to leave your front door open and allow anyone who came in get in the bathtub with you.
“Gone are the good old days when you’d let someone you didn’t know from Adam scrub your back or splash around in the bubbles with you and your rubber ducky,” he said.
“And when you’d both dried off, you’d go to the shop and ask them to guard the money under your mattress. Then you’d come back and let them throw knives at your wife or husband who’d be strapped to the wall, because you knew they wouldn’t hit them. But nowadays you’d probably end up face down in your bath, with your mattress money gone and your partner looking like Swiss cheese.”
Borg refused to say who were the people who had ruined this idyllic way of life.
“I don’t want to point fingers, but it certainly isn’t people who were born here. What Gozitan would intentionally ruin his own island?”
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