Changing a flat in lion country…
I don’t know which sighting is the most rare nowadays: a lion or a broken-down vehicle. Cars nowadays simply don’t seem to break down. You may see be a light blinking on the instrument cluster that politely warns you there’s a problem somewhere with the computer, but that’s not something you need to worry about immediately. Leave it to a technician with a laptop when you return to your dealer.
The days of men bending like half-cocked shotguns into the engine bays next to a deserted road are a thing of the past. You also don’t find many people thumbing a ride – an empty jerrycan in one hand, a R10 note in the other, indicating that they’ve run out of fuel.
The computer nannys you in so many ways: how much petrol is left in the tank, what your fuel consumption is, how many kilos you can still drive –
