Driving test queue Take 3!!!
I went up to Graskop again on Thursday night stroke Friday morning to make a booking for my driving test. We arrived to the test centre at 8 PM on the Thursday night with sleeping bags en tow. There were 4 people ahead of us so it seemed we were in luck. That meant that we would be 5 and 6 in the queue. We settled down for what was for me to be a sleepless night. The local lads didn’t shut until 2 am and then the snoring started. Add to that the drone of mozzies and you get an idea of what it was like to settle in. The local lads woke at 5 am as well so there wasn’t much sleep to be had. The test centre opened at a quarter to eight. So by the time things started to happen at the centre, we had been queuing for over 12 hours. Unfortunately there weren’t any cheap holidays or bargains to be got at the end of it!
A couple of guys arrived at just after seven at the centre and I started to get an ominous feeling that we were going to be shafted again. They started to make phone calls and the supervisor who we had seen turn away people the other day made contact with them before he took in the 7 people in the queue. I wasn’t very happy about that at the time and as he started to let people in through the gate he stopped me to look at my papers. He told me that they weren’t the right ones for this test centre and let the other two guys in behind me. I was livid as you can imagine but this is Africa and unfortunately these things happen all the time. At least “Fixer,” or “Lack of Fixing as I call him now,” was allowed to book his test for next week. I’m back to square one and am at the stage where I couldn’t be arsed with it any more. I’ll deal with the consequences down the line.
Our Librarian Laura was having a going away party on the Friday night and it was a fancy dress party. I wasn’t really in the humour for it after the waste of time the night before but I snapped myself out of the bad vibe when I saw some of the costumes that people were wearing. It was a great night and I’ve attached some great pics!
We went to an Elephant sanctuary today and were able to lead two Elephants and feed them by hand. It was a wicked experience. They are such gentle giants and I can’t emphasize the word Giant enough. It’s a lucky thing that Elephants aren’t carnivores or we’d be in trouble.
I went up to Graskop again on Thursday night stroke Friday morning to make a booking for my driving test. We arrived to the test centre at 8 PM on the Thursday night with sleeping bags en tow. There were 4 people ahead of us so it seemed we were in luck. That meant that we would be 5 and 6 in the queue. We settled down for what was for me to be a sleepless night. The local lads didn’t shut until 2 am and then the snoring started. Add to that the drone of mozzies and you get an idea of what it was like to settle in. The local lads woke at 5 am as well so there wasn’t much sleep to be had. The test centre opened at a quarter to eight. So by the time things started to happen at the centre, we had been queuing for over 12 hours. Unfortunately there weren’t any cheap holidays or bargains to be got at the end of it!
A couple of guys arrived at just after seven at the centre and I started to get an ominous feeling that we were going to be shafted again. They started to make phone calls and the supervisor who we had seen turn away people the other day made contact with them before he took in the 7 people in the queue. I wasn’t very happy about that at the time and as he started to let people in through the gate he stopped me to look at my papers. He told me that they weren’t the right ones for this test centre and let the other two guys in behind me. I was livid as you can imagine but this is Africa and unfortunately these things happen all the time. At least “Fixer,” or “Lack of Fixing as I call him now,” was allowed to book his test for next week. I’m back to square one and am at the stage where I couldn’t be arsed with it any more. I’ll deal with the consequences down the line.
Our Librarian Laura was having a going away party on the Friday night and it was a fancy dress party. I wasn’t really in the humour for it after the waste of time the night before but I snapped myself out of the bad vibe when I saw some of the costumes that people were wearing. It was a great night and I’ve attached some great pics!
We went to an Elephant sanctuary today and were able to lead two Elephants and feed them by hand. It was a wicked experience. They are such gentle giants and I can’t emphasize the word Giant enough. It’s a lucky thing that Elephants aren’t carnivores or we’d be in trouble.
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