Okie Dokie Sirr

They are a salt-of-the-earth kind of race with good values and a relatively strong will to work. Thin, meagre and malnourished they go about their daily work on my construction site in sweltering 50 degrees Celsius heat and sand storms. Health and Safety? What’s that?

Booze Cruise on a Car Roof

I noticed the stretch of road in front of me open up. I hear the torque monster motor purring with anticipation. I have two butt naked guys on the roof of my car, holding onto beer quarts and discussing the morning booze cruise. I can’t take it…the road is just too beautiful…I hope these guys can hang on because it is go time…

Quasimodo on Speed

I was thinking about an old mate of mine named SheepHead. Thin, lanky Ludacris looking mofo with a massive afro. Well most of the time when he wasn’t sporting Sean Paul corn rows or day before payday fuzz. I did corn rows once – I rate she literally pulled out bits of scalp. Like Inglorious Barbers – She wants her scalps!

Honda...What a Cock Block

I flick the revs up and down to signal the race. I hear the acceptance and response from the fella in the blacked out VW Golf GTI two lanes down. I pay my money, pick up the revs to 4500rpm and hold her tight against the handbrake.  The boom gates go up, my clutch drops hard and I set off like a bat out of hell. Who said toll gates can’t be fun?

Beans with Caffeine in Them

Boredom is a strange thing. Some people eat, some people sleep and some people go mad with a butchers cleaver in a post office. Me: I write articles about all the dumb s**t I got up to in my younger years.

Take Away Ribs and Ronaldinho

So I am on a training course in Jhb again. Sitting here in my little single serving bedroom and it got me thinking about the last course I was on. September 2012 and a group of us from the construction industry get together and learn about various management skills.