Something light hearted…… looking for a ray of fun and life in the dead end of load shedding.
Driving around Johannesburg earlier this month, and last, I have come to the conclusion that South Africans are possibly the best 4-way stop drivers in the world. With so many traffic lights down so often, we have become quite efficient at the my-turn-your-turn thing, with many intersections working at a constant and steady pace. That is, until someone who never mastered board games in their formative years arrives at ground zero and then the rhythm breaks down!
At one interaction in Randburg, I came across a chap who obviously used to stand at the lights with a piece of cardboard and a cup, but now uses traffic conducting to gather his donations – although how to stop and pay him was a mystery. Anyway…. He has used his initiative and has become very good indeed at conducting the traffic, in an intersection that is two lanes each way in both directions. If that made sense. He was so entertaining and such a disciplinarian of anyone who didn’t listen to him, that it was also wonderful entertainment. And he made the intersection work. Innovative South Africans.
So as I say, just finding some ‘light’ in our ‘darker’ times.