Villagers In the City

Every Saturday like clockwork the vervets would visit. Yeah I know "do not feed the animals", well there was never any harm feeding them with bananas if there were available. It was always an amazing sight to watch the babies clinging to their mothers bellies, while they made their tight rope walk along the barbed wire fence on one wall.

Puppy the estate dog would always have fun chasing the them up the trees or up the wall, where they would chatter expletives at her for infringing on their outing.

Unlike the vervet monkeys that made the weekend visit to the estate. Most of the city dwellers have found themselves thrown into city life right from their villages, the need to earn a living has resulted in a migration to our only major city in the country.

The need to prove to the folks upcountry and their peers that they are now city dwellers and doing well, has resulted in most of these families and singles in the middle class buying the odd car to beat traffic. They drive around in total disregard to traffic rules driving as they would move on the sidewalk where no lanes nor traffic rules apply when they were pedestrians.

They toss items destined for the garbage pile out the car window, yet they dont do this in their own homes making the assumption that its only one item forgetting there are a few million other citizens inclined to do the same.