I am really lucky not only do I get to experience some first world gadgets, like TV's and DSTV, and Smart phones, Ipads, laptops, and internet fraudsters trying everything in their power to make me part with my money, I have discovered during the not too distant past that I
am in fact a princess and that my wealth uncle has left me millions of dollars all I need to to get all these dollars is to pay a "small admin fee". I never realised I had relatives in Nigeria..... I have also over the past months won the American, British and Australian, lotto all of which I can claim ........ with a small admin fee up front, all of which I have never entered, does anyone else find that odd is some small way?
I also get the third world experiences like absolute poverty people living in cardboard boxes
children playing on rubbish dumps people robbing you of your roof when you are still trying to live under it, or stealing your car radiator so that it can be sold for scrap metal, people stripping perfectly good houses which have the misfortune of being left unoccupied for a few weeks, to sell off as scrap for a few rands. Welcome to Africa.
Now I know exactly where my matches are after all my claim to fame is that I am super organised, I get home feel up the fridge ( am sure that I heard it giggle) because that is where I keep my matches hey presto two boxes of matches....... with one match in both boxes........ my housekeeper who is sooooooooo lucky she is not here as she is the smoker of the family and used up all the matches ........... so with one chance I light my first candle..... whoop whoop success...... and we have light.........
Sunday night we are chilling after a busy weekend it is ..... 8.30pm............... ( image the Jaws music here doodoo )........... the lights go out............... no matches ...not smoking I forgot to buy new matches, and now we sit in the dark, cursing the corruption at Eskom our power provider who have not maintained or erected new power stations since the freeing of Nelson Mandela 20 years ago.......... and knowing in the middle of summer if they can not provide enough power what happens come winter............ going out to buy everything gas.........
Looking forward to this happening all the time, as we have been warning rolling blackout will be a part of our lives for at least the next two years, I now have candles and matches all over the house in fact all set for the apocolypse, and the lights stay on.............. just got to Love Africa.
Oh Karen, it sounds like quite a juggling act of self preservation. I get the same rich people who have left me fortunes and I could go an cruise that I won and also some sweepstakes in other countries across the world.
ReplyDeleteA good thing our power provider is keeping us powered up or we'd freeze our butts. It's been freezing for quite a while except today felt like Spring.
Stay safe and cool.
Hugs,
JB
I love your humorous stories. I'm just imagining it in my mind.
Change "Africa" to "America"....we all have the same issues! I'm a princess too! Such a small world after all! My Mom just won $1000 and all she has to do to claim it is send in a small fee..hmmmmm. You need a generator or some big battery operated flashlights...much brighter than candles. Although the last black out we had that lasted for a week, I found out I look much better in candle light! Stay safe dear friend in this small, small, very similar, world!
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