IT’S November and we in SA are getting ready to drink ourselves stupid over the next two months, and while in that state, engage in some serious driving-under-the-influence.
Not that we don’t do it for the other 10 months.
It’s just that over the festive season we take it to a whole new level, usually breaking previous drinking-and-driving records in spectacular fashion.
We do all this because traditionally we are a nation of boozers and also, law enforcement is virtually non-existent, so who’s going to stop us?
Those who run the country maybe don’t care….
They’ve got more serious things to worry about, such as how to spend that R50-million which was supposed to go to Aids orphans.
But we SA folk don’t just drink for the sake of getting snot-faced drunk…
We have many, many good reasons.
Like getting home and finding your TV still where you left it.
That’s definitely reason enough to down a few cold ones, or half a bottle of something with a few drops of Sprite.
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This is Africa, not Switzerland, so just making it home each day, without being robbed at gunpoint, hijacked or stabbed with a screwdriver for your phone needs to be celebrated.
In fact waking up each morning, with your head still attached, and finding your car where you left it, justifies celebrating with a double shot of something wickedly strong in your coffee.
Hey, take another cup of ‘vodkachino’ – to go – for when you reach work without your face getting stuck in a taxi’s radiator because, although the unemployment figure doubles every two seconds, there’s no money for more traffic officers.
Besides, the kick-back cronies need that money more than the jobless and anyway, working in SA means striking for seven hours a day with two 10 minute tea breaks and a lunch in between, so what’s the point?
Where am I going with this and do you think I exaggerate?
If so, then you haven’t been doing much driving lately, especially on weekends.
Zululand’s roads are lawless most of the time but over weekends it’s absolute chaos and it’s getting worse as we near Christmas and New Year.
And why should SA drivers obey the rules of the road if those in charge of the country are reportedly breaking every law imaginable?
It’s unfortunately how it works:
When those at the top do whatever they want the ones below them follow suit, and soon you have what we sit with now; a country where it’s every man for himself.
I have no tips for you on how to avoid drunk drivers.
They are more common than road signs nowadays.
Maybe just try and keep off the roads as much as possible, especially over weekends and the holiday period.
