March 9, 2007
Life is like a box-2, you never know what you’re going to get……
Tuesday night I managed to lock myself out of my house again - previously I’d got back from the lake on Monday and found I’d left the latch on the door from the inside so had to go crash at Paul’s - the next morning after 8am once Beth had started work and come with her own keys for the side door, I arrived back at my place. I got a quick shower, rushed around a bit and left for auction at 830am looking a bit lake-side with my sunshine skin and 4 day stubble - I proceeded to bumble through the day, only to return and now find that in my morning whirlwind, I’d left my keys indoors - swore the gods for fucking with me when so broken and headed back to Paul’s again.
On the way there I headed up the Zomba road and spied a figure dancing down the centre of the road in front of me - carefree kind of jogging and dancing at the same time with his arms flailing in the air - seemingly singing at the top of his voice - wearing only a tatty oversized pair of white Y-fronts:
“aha” I thought to myself.
“a Box-2 on the loose again”
I got to Paul’s and he informed that the guy had been out there all day - running up and down the road - jumping on car bonnets in the rain and trying to hump the engines - he’d been holding up traffic, nearly getting run over, probably slapped a few times - just dancing up the middle of the street in his pants trying to have sex with automobiles.
The thing is that even though this is one of the more outstanding cases - it’s not a surprise.
Over in Zomba they have the mental hospital - very far away from the sunshine enthusiasm of Hollywood’s happy go lucky kooky board game playing hearts of gold - first off you have Box-39 and these boys don’t get let loose - that place must be the stuff of Freddy Kreuger’s very own nightmares - that’s a serious pit of no return and someone should be making a slasher flick about back-packers that accidentally stumble across it - we’re talking dark side of the moon barking like a dog trying to eat their own feet shit-house crazy - strapped to beds and left there cases.
Then you have Box-2 - still fucking nuts - but not in a cannibalistic kind of way - more a dribbling dancing mumbling dustbin state of affairs - usually found in the middle of the road wandering aimlessly talking to themselves with only a badly cut loincloth to cover their modesty - the box-2 is a strange beast who should be avoided at all costs - and certainly not to be trusted with animals, as numerous reports of Donkey humping incidents will testify.
They wander the hills around the asylum and often make their way to the town of Zomba and even as far as nearby Limbe - whether these day trips are officially sanctioned or whether they are the result of slack Malawian attitudes to security, I don’t know - but what I do know is that they seem like the African versions of Jack from Father Ted and are always a welcome addition to the day - you just don’t know what they’ll do next - crazy little ojeni’s.
Spo | March 9, 2007
Comments on Life is like a box-2, you never know what you’re going to get……
if only life were as interesting here.
and that keys thing, yeah i know about that!
Posted by Dan on 03/11 at 11:14 AM
humping a car engine?
is there something in the water there that makes them uber-crazy? or as you say (i love it) shit-house crazy.
Posted by eric on 03/12 at 05:46 PM
Dan - broken and coming home after the long wknd is probably one of the worst times to forget your keys - salvation so close - denied!
Eric - yeah, the act of humping should associate itself with metal engines and motor oil - shit-house crazy indeed - guess other countries mental folk get drugged up and kept in-doors where as here we let em roam free!
Posted by spo on 03/16 at 11:38 AM
Eric - yeah, the act of humping should associate itself with metal engines and motor oil - shit-house crazy indeed - guess other countries mental folk get drugged up and kept in-doors where as here we let em roam free!
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