Oh good, everyone's back...

It’s safe to assume that I’m not the only who has noticed that everybody is back at work in Joburg. And I do mean everyone…

Gone are the days (well the 2 week period around Christmas anyway) where one could hop in the car in Pretoria and zip off to your destination in Johannesburg, stepping from your chariot/skedonk barely 35 minutes later.

It just couldn’t last, could it? Now every Tom, Dick, Harry, Bob, Frikkie and Sue-Ellen have arrived back from their annual alcohol and sun-stroke fests to Cape Town, for those with an affinity for wine, and Margate, for those with an affinity for brannas, Coke and moering okes what can like to check you skeef.

Once again Joburg and all related roads in the province burst at the seams with slow-ass cars, and I therefore descend into a perpetual sulk for three to four hours a day, all the while feeling the need to inform all the other tonsils on the road that they are, as per general public opinion (or so I’d like to imagine), in fact idiots.

It’s nothing personal.

Well, actually it is. Very. Get off my roads.

Oh well.

I think it’s time to go farm bunnies in the Free State. Who’s coming with me?

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• Why does highway traffic suck? Now you know…
• Google Maps Navigation – a challenger to regular GPS?
• Traffic fine: FAIL. Metro Cop sense of humour: PASS.
• Stu’s take on… traffic (i)