It's Great to be a Souf Efrikan!!!

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 pathetic 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.

13.The police you have to call about three times.

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

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

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

17.A murderer gets a 6 month sentence and a pirate TV viewer 2 years.

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

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

20.Police cars are fitted with immobilizers and gear locks!

21.Condoms for free – shopping plastic bags for sale.

Ja nee!! Dis Lokken-Fekker hier!!

The Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.

As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.  Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so ...
Love the people who treat you right.

Pray for the ones who don't.

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Have a garbage-free day!

"Faith is not believing Our Heavenly Father can, it is knowing that Our Heavenly Father will."