You Know You Are In Africa When...
...you instruct your driver to take a vehicle and go to a nearby yard to collect some previously ordered timber (a journey that should involve a left turn out of the compound, a drive of around 2kms and should take a maximum of one hour to complete) he makes a right turn out of the compound and you don't see him or the vehicle for the rest of the day and when it does eventually reappear, the vehicle has over 100 additional kilometers on the clock.