It's Great to be a Souf Efrikan

[Delia]

This is a great country because:
1. You can eat half dried meat and not be considered disgusting.

2. Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.

3. You get to buy a new car every 3 months and the insurance company even pays for it.

4. You can experience kak service in eleven official languages.

5. Where else can you get oranges with 45% alcohol content at rugby matches?

6.  It's the only country in the world where striking workers show how angry they are by dancing.

7. You're considered clumsy if you cannot: use a cell phone (without car kit), change CDs, drink a beer, put on make-up, read the newspaper and smoke, all at the same time while driving a car at 160 kph in a 60 kph zone.

8. Great accent. (!!!)

9. If you live in Johannesburg, you get to brag about living in the most dangerous city in the world.

10. Burglar bars become a feature, and a great selling point for your house.

11. You can decorate your garden walls with barbed wire.

12. The tow-trucks  are the first on the scene for most major crimes, without being called. The police you have to call about three times.

13. Votes have to be recounted until the right party wins.

14. Illegal immigrants leave the country because the crime rate is too high.

15. The police ask you if they must follow up on the burglary you've just reported.

16. A murderer gets a 6 month sentence ...R 500 bail and a pirate TV viewer 2 years .....or R2000 fine.... So rather kill the TV license officer and save yourself either 18 months or R1500.

17. The prisoners strike and get to vote in elections!

18. The police stations have panic buttons to call armed response when they are burgled

19. Police cars are fitted with immobilisers and gearlocks!

20.  Condoms for free - shopping plastic bags for sale

Ja nee!!  Dis lekker hier!!

[barb (Fry)]

 beautiful

so we can laugh at ourselves.

[Delia]

Absolutely Barb' otherwise we'd go mal in this circus. Laughter is the best medicine around.

[Julie Vice (Willson)]

You're so right there Dee. I was explaining to my Dad about my mom's funeral that will be taking place on Monday.  I told him we're not having all the cars that go with the possession.  He thought about it for a while and asked, so how's the coffin going to get to the chapel. Bless him.

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Julie  -  great to have you back on the forum again.

Ja, is'nt it wonderfull that we can still laugh at ourselves in times like these.

Something funny from my dad's funeral:  when the coffin had to be lowered into the grave, the undertaker realized that the coffin was to long and would'nt go down.  So, all the people attending was sort of told that we wanted the "last moments" to be private and they all had to go for the tea and cake session - we (my brother, myself, my hubby & dad's brothers) stayed behind.  Had to take the coffin off those roller things, put it back into the car, brake out the bricks at the foot-end of the grave & only then could we put the stuff back and lower the coffin.  All sweaty and full of dust my dad's one brother stood hands on the hips and said:  Ja, typically Dirk!  He's checking us out now and saying  -  lekker, you lotta  &$%(&))  -  I will give you SH...T till the last moment.

Needless to say - we all burst out laughing.

Well, all the best to you.  You are all in our thoughts.

[Julie Vice (Willson)]

Thanks Dalene,  can't wait for the girls to get here. They arrive on Thursday......Jackie makes me laugh and Paula is good for the sole. I'll be able to tell them all the funny things that happened while I've been caring for my Mom. I did'nt know whether to laugh of cry sometimes.

[barb (Fry)]

do both, at the same time if you can manage it -

[barb (Fry)]

 or in the words of ~Winston Churchill - If you're going through hell, keep going. 

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

or in the words of ~Winston Churchill - If you're going through hell, keep going. 

So true! 

I know exactly how you felt, Julie.  I sometimes cried my eyes out about my dad during those last two years.  To see a big man like him fade away to a mere skeleton was so sad.