If you are from Cape Town you will know that the traffic is not for sissies. We have the Northern Suburbs that is about 30 – 40 km from town and then we have the Southern Suburbs that is about 10 – 20 km from town. When revering to town I mean Cape Town the mother city.
The average person living in the Northern Suburbs are about 2 and half hours each day on the road just from home to work and back. It was on one of those days, I was in the traffic bumper to bumper checking a whats-app message. ‘Yes’, I know you are not supposed to check your phone when driving but the car was standing still and I checked: ‘OK’.
The guy in front of me held out of his window a round message board with the word: ‘Hi’.
I didn’t really reply thought he was sarcastic because I was checking my phone and ignored him chatting with my son in the car asking me: ‘What is with this guy?’
The guy held out another board with the message: ‘Traffic is hectic.’ To which I replied in hand motions and head shaking to ‘Yes’.
To which the guy replied with another board: ‘You’re cute’
There I was speechless and my son asking me if this guy is high or something. Blushing like a sixteen year old I replied: ‘Thank you’
A board was held out again: ‘Are you Free?’
To which my son replied: ‘No! This guy is weird mom.’
Smiling I replied to the guy with a negative shake of my head to which he showed another board: ‘Wanna fool around?’
By then I was laughing out loud and again said no to which the guy replied: ‘At least I tried’ and drove in a different direction as me.
That was the most inventive way I have ever been flirted with and helped with the mundane traffic we have to live with in Cape Town.
Thank you kind sir for making my day!