Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Third World Problems

These are just for joke sake but most are based on truth. Here we go! Ill try to post a new one each week.



Ask for directions to the closest hair cut place, walk aimlessly for 2 hours because everyone you ask waves their hand and says, just a little bit that way.

Catch a ride from a stranger driving towards your village who drops you off and says its only a little bit down the street, walk down the same dirt road for an hour passing no houses as darkness engulfs you, start to cry.

Wake up to catch the only bus out of your village that leaves at 7:00 AM. Wait at bus stop till 7:40 until someone tells you the bus came early at 6:30 that day... for no reason.

Its raining, power goes out, its windy power goes out, someone pushed on a power pole, power goes out.
(see neighboring carrying a cut down tree the next day to fix it)

Its raining, nobody does anything

Its any time between 10 AM and 5 PM in the summer, nobody does anything.

First World: Thunderstorm made your house shake: Wow im glad im inside!
Third World: Thunderstorm made your house shake: I better go outside in case my house falls down....

Discover burrowed sand flea in toe, leave it for tomorrow.

Can fit all your belongings in one suitcase and a backpack, get told you own a lot of stuff.

Cooked a combination of rice, beans and noodles with some special korean sauce, think you made a gourmet meal.

Ran out of meat, go to the cow killing house on Saturday morning and patiently wait in line for your turn to buy miscellaneous cow part. Pump fist when they dont run out.









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