I had a somewhat misspent youth … where apart from acquiring a library of dirty and tasteless jokes, I also learned useful skills like how to get into a house if someone was silly enough to leave the key in the front door and how to open the driver’s door lock on virtually any British-made car from the ’60s . And, although I’ve spent time in the cells for doing my job, I wouldn’t call myself criminally inclined.
We had booked Easter weekend at a place in Gauteng but lockdown shot that down. The owners agreed to postpone until August, not knowing they would be still closed by the third week of July. I was surprised at my wife’s apparently natural criminal mind. Thinking about the possible police roadblocks on the way, we’ve already been using Google maps to see if there are viable backroads we can use.
It was then that I remembered an even better dodge for concealing liquor from officious officials – and that it was shared with me by someone who, clearly, has misspent more of his youth than even I had.
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