Funny story of rejection

Kyle and I started our hitch-hiking adventure from the Jansenville petrol station.
Our thinking was to ask people who pulled up at the station for a lift. This would allow them to see that we weren’t going to kill them, and then we could also make sure they weren’t running a meth lab in the back of their bakkie.


After 2 hours we hadn't caught a lift and ended up walking off towards Graaff-Reinet hoping to get picked up along the way, which did in fact happen.

The funniest rejection we received was from a guy driving an open bakkie. There was nothing in the back, so space wasn’t an issue. We had become desperate by this stage, and we were keen to head to any major town in the area.

Here is the blow-by-blow dialogue.

Us: Hi Sir, how are you doing?
Him: Well thanks.
Us: Sir, where are you headed?
Him: I’m going to Uitenhage and then straight on to PE.
Us: Great. Would it be possible to catch a lift to Uitenhage with you?
Him: …
Him: …
Him: … No, I’m staying here in Jansenville.
Us: So you aren’t going to Uitenhage?
Him: … No, I’m staying here.
Us: …
Us: But didn’t you just say … ummm…
Us: Ok, thanks.

Chuckle o' the day

So with the supposed end of the world coming on Saturday I thought I'd put up a rapture themed Chuckle O' The Day. This cartoon comes courtesy of Pearls Before Swine.

Mammoth Mess-Up as Conservatives take on the Bohemians

Once again the fundamentalists and the hippies were at odds with one another at the local ‘Mammoth Eating Competition’ this weekend. The competition, which was run by the local Hippies Unified by Guns Society (HUGS), was held in support of world hunger. The hippies came out in full force in their attempt to alleviate world hunger and although it was unsure how hippies gorging themselves for an afternoon was going to affect world hunger or why the Gun Society would be involved, nobody wanted to seem like a prophet of doom and no objections were raised.

The slogan for the event read “eat a lot, and save a child” and that’s what they did, or at least tried to until the fundamentalists arrived. Led by world renowned spiritual leader, Frank, they started yelling at the HUGS members calling them “murderers” and “overweight” and other names as well. The fight really got out of hand when Frank started launching toasters at the hippies, and the police had to be called in to calm down the agitation.

It was later determined that Frank had misunderstood the intention of the competition and thought that the hippies were eating real mammoths. Frank later released a statement saying “when I heard that the hippies were going to be eating the mammoth I got upset. Ever since Mindy the Mammoth came to me during a peyote-induced dream and revealed to me the secrets of life, I have fought to protect their sacred species. Now that I know they just meant ‘a large amount’, all is forgiven and one day we’ll be able to look back on this day and laugh.”