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Picture this: late night, deep in the wilderness of the Botswana swamps. My bladder is bursting, but the tent bathroom is occupied. Inside I hear water running, which doesn’t particularly help containing my waterworks.
I rap on the tent door. No reaction. Slam with an open hand, harder. Still no reaction.
“Ansie!” My tentmate has a ‘slight’ hearing problem. And she’s been inside for hours.
“Ansie! Are you in the shower?”
“What? I can’t hear you, I’m in the shower!”
“Are you going to be long?”
“Whaat?” “ARE YOU… Oh, never mind.”
I peer through the tent flap. It’s pitch-black outside. Our camp isn’t fenced and my fear of a rupturing bladder is rapidly overcoming my fear of lions. I weigh up my options.
Just then, the bathroom door flies open.
“What’s happening?” asks Ansie, buck naked and dripping, hair covered in foam and brandishing a back brush.
“Nothing. I just need...”
“Nothing! I thought there was a lion in the tent, the way you were carrying on.”
“Toilet,” I croak and shoot past her.
“You really have to speak louder,” she says, getting back in the
shower. “I have a slight problem, remember?”
This story is from the February/March 2022 edition of Home South Africa.
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