Bob and the cheesecake
Drove home last night, the proud owner of a delicious milk-tart, which is a very yummy cake/dessert from my part of the world. One of my friends had managed to aquire one for me and I thought it would be a treat for my mum as well to have something from home. Reminded me of an incident that happened to one of my friends in Zimbabwe ( I promise this will be the last Zimbabwean tale of the week).
Anyway, this friend of mine used to work out near the airport in Bulawayo and used to drive at the speed of lightning. One day she was returning home and she just happened to have a large cheesecake which she had purchased for the family. She didn't know , but Robert (Mugabe) had just arrived at the airport and was on his way into town with his 50 car motorcade of police, army, ambulance ,you name it, not that he's paranoid or anything. In Zimbabwe if you hear the presidential sirens blaring you know damn well to get off the road otherwise you have a very good chance of being shot. So when she heard all these sirens approaching , she didn't take much notice at first, luckily for her she was stopped at a road block and was immediately surrounded by screaming police with guns, yelling at her to get away from the road. She was so scared when she saw Bob go past that she started crying and trembling. She asked one of the officers what was going to happen to her. He said "Don't worry madam, you will just get a ticket, one policeman will accompany you to the station in Bulawayo and you can sort it out."
So a policeman was duly selected and climbed into her car. She was still shaking with shock and all she could think about was the cheesecake getting ruined, so she asked the policeman to hold the cheesecake for her, and that's how they drove off into town. Only in Zimbabwe!
Anyway, this friend of mine used to work out near the airport in Bulawayo and used to drive at the speed of lightning. One day she was returning home and she just happened to have a large cheesecake which she had purchased for the family. She didn't know , but Robert (Mugabe) had just arrived at the airport and was on his way into town with his 50 car motorcade of police, army, ambulance ,you name it, not that he's paranoid or anything. In Zimbabwe if you hear the presidential sirens blaring you know damn well to get off the road otherwise you have a very good chance of being shot. So when she heard all these sirens approaching , she didn't take much notice at first, luckily for her she was stopped at a road block and was immediately surrounded by screaming police with guns, yelling at her to get away from the road. She was so scared when she saw Bob go past that she started crying and trembling. She asked one of the officers what was going to happen to her. He said "Don't worry madam, you will just get a ticket, one policeman will accompany you to the station in Bulawayo and you can sort it out."
So a policeman was duly selected and climbed into her car. She was still shaking with shock and all she could think about was the cheesecake getting ruined, so she asked the policeman to hold the cheesecake for her, and that's how they drove off into town. Only in Zimbabwe!
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