Tuesday 20 March 2007

MAMA, TAKE THIS BADGE OFF OF ME

It was about twenty k’s outside Pretoria, where the veld begins to turn into Magaliesberg scrub.

On the way back the driver decided to treat us to one of those famous joyrides designed to scare the shit out of green roofies like us. They had a special name in Afrikaans, but I can’t remember what it was.

We ended up hitting a concrete barrier on the side of a sloot and somersaulting into the middle of the R107. Those of us who weren’t pinned under the truck managed to crawl out through the torn canvas into the afternoon sunlight. There was a weird smell that included petrol, battery acid, piss, blood and, yes, shit.

That’s how I got to One Military Hospital. But it isn’t how I got to Ward 11.

1 comment:

Benjy said...

Same thing happened to me only from Middelburg to Greefswald,July 16th 1971 .Complete flip over .We had to right the Bedford and told not to say anything .Hoped at the time i would be killed and thus escape the Vault .
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