Best Zimbabwe Story.....

Zimbabwe has been a total mess for years. The economy has been weak due to the collapse of production from the large white owned farms, and the resulting decline in exports has left a severe shortage of foreign currency available for importing such necessities as fuel.

As a result, people have resorted to following fuel trucks from South Africa Sugarland Express style once they cross the border or waiting for days on lines at gas stations to get fuel for their cars once it is delivered.

This story was related to me by one of my Zimbabwean buddies about an acquaintance of his. One night, a woman called her husband on his cell-phone asking him if was coming home for dinner that night. He told her that he was waiting in line for fuel at the gas station and that he probably wouldn't be home for quite a while.

The dutiful wife then packed a nice dinner for her dear husband and called him again. She asked him where he was and he exasperatingly replied that he was waiting on line at the gas station as he had told her before. She said OK. She called him again asking him if he wanted dinner and he yelled at her saying that he was waiting at the gas station for fuel as he told her several times before. She then replied that she had been waiting in the car for him with his dinner since the previous time that she called and that he had better get his ass out of his girlfriend's house and back to the car for dinner with her.

I imagine that that wasn't the most pleasant meal he has ever had.