Somebody call the Sheriff there is a Gunman in town

South Africa Gap Year Research Trip

Somebody call the Sheriff there is a Gunman in town!

So here is something you don’t see every day: an African dude in a bank paying in lots of money. Well actually that is only the half of it, what made this guy special is that he casually strolls into a bank (I follow him into change a travellers Cheque), he walks up to the cashier leans over and his revolver pops out of his trousers. No kidding, I’m standing 3 foot away from a guy with a gun – in a bank. Now call me old fashioned but I’m still of the opinion that banks tend to frown upon customers with Guns – but not it would seem in this country. I took a moment to consider bolting for the door, just in case something bad was about to go down, but then I thought I’d wait as this could be quite interesting if it did and besides how many bank robbers actually go to the trouble of paying in money before they rob the place.

Then I had a thought – may be this country has got it right. How much better service would you get in Barclays, or McDonalds or anywhere for that matter if you had a hand cannon stuffed in your belt. I may try it sometime.
As you have probably guessed the guy did not shoot any one or rob the place – besides if he had how many of the other customers were packing? Probably not a good move – instead he left the bank, saddled up and rode off on his horse into the sunset.

Afterwards I decided to drive to Tzaneen for some shopping – this involved going to a shopping mall with some of the BEST SHOPS IN THE WORLD! For example: The Excitement shop – (selling quite possibly the most unexciting Tupperware, glassware and crap) in the world. Mr Price – some kind of clothes shop selling some of the cheapest shit in Africa – trust me that an achievement (I enquired if Mr Price was in but the African Shop assistant just looked at me a tad strangely). A SPAR Shop (they get bloody everywhere it would seem) where you can buy such delights as “Cheese Cracks”, “Chocolate Logs” and Ladies Favourite “Toss” washing powder. Sadly my shopping trip left me unfulfilled, but it was a hell of an experience, perhaps I would have seen more exciting stuff if I had delved longer, but I desperately needed a shit, so I left.

In the evening Ryan and I had a Brai (BBQ) on the deck, we had noisy hippos keeping us company and various other African bush animals, Zebra, Giraffe and Jackals.
I had a few too many gin an tonics and attempted to mount a buck, sadly it got wise to my moves and ran off into the bush.

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