and you can keep it. In my town people that drive like that would end up in the bush. Seriously I got cut up so many times by fools in golfs that I was becoming a nervous wreck. We have morons on our roads here, Our morons like overtaking on barrier lines. They are suicidal and stupid but cutting across three lanes at the last minute to take the offramp?

I complain about the traffic holdup here because of the roadworks, I promise I won’t whine about that again. I heard of sales reps that spend more time on the road than in actual sales calls yesterday. Thats just fucked up. Personally I would try a different tactic, I was going to say route but I saw roads that 12 years ago were navigable by little old ladies jammed with traffic.

I watched a bloke on a bike with an obvious deathwish near the Gilooleys interchange, The bike was popping on deceleration and whining on acceleration telling me the bloke was at high revs all the way. That doesn’t leave much of an error margin when some fuxknut decides to croos three lanes to exit.

I myself have always been partial to the inbetween lanes on the bikes but man you don’y do that at 120 when the cars are crawling at 60 when the traffic is about as predictable as a Maltese Poodle on steroids. I had traffic force their way into the 2,5 meters between me and the car in front of me because they did not plan ahead. If there was a bike on my left… I shudder.

The one thing I will grant is though that the burgers seemed to be a lot less aggressive and friendlier that I would expect living in the rat run I observed. The few people I came into contact with all had a smile ans were cheery. My stop at De Backery in the Valley that used to be an Eden in  the 80’s was proof that some things never change even if the world is crumbling around them.

Edenvale is slowly deteriorating, I saw no shops that gave me any indication that Edenvale had a future. Where there were landmarks there are now pawn shops, chinese gift and trinket shops, closed shops. It reminds me of the West Rand in the eighties. A little run down, a little forlorn and just a place to be grateful you came from and got out of years ago.

Zoo lake looks good, It seems someone cares but all around Zoo lake there are no welcoming suburbs, the people live behind walls so tall I was reminded of a trip I did down a few canyons in my youth. The bakkie even wallowed on the poor road surfaces. My emotions were conflicting seeing these places I spent my youth, sorrow that they had changed as much, concern that people were as fearful that they had imprisoned themselves.

No I am happy that I no longer live in the area.  I wish I could tell you that I learned something or was able to give you a lesson about the internet but all I got was, Thank the universe I don’t call this place home anymore.

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