My friend Martin, who's Irish, said yesterday that "not a day goes by here that something doesn't make you go what the f#$%." Truer words never spoken.
Yesterday's WTF: Small, white pickup truck driving from the Togo border toward Accra. Two men in the back. With two horned cows. One guy had his legs draped over this poor animal's back. There may have been three cows in the truck, actually. I only saw two. Either way, wtf.
When I was in South Africa a few years back with the small school group, the kids picked up on a good, family-friendly way to react to the "WTF" moments. It was a local epithet, not one invented by us.
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"This is Africa."
You've got to get quick with the camera! I've got two gems of photos - one with chickens tied to the back hood of a purple Mercedes and another with 3 camels inside a jeep (that one was Mauritania, taken by the ex, but still a great photo, despite the photographer. ;-).
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