As you may have noticed I haven’t had quite as many stories about the police blocks…don’t worry they haven’t disappeared but they aren’t as entertaining…when they stop you they check your insurance sticker on the car and your license but other than that it isn’t too interesting. And there even seem to be more of them…there have also been more road signs—new ones. Leaving Lilongwe we now have a sign as to where the road leads—dedza, Blantyre, nkhoma…and at the turnoff to nkhoma there is a sign that mentions the hospital with an arrow even. But along with the new destination signs came new speed limit signs…and they are slow—50km…in some ways it makes sense but it is really slow. And they have been quite around for speed traps. So when I was driving to the lake I was pretty careful (hard for me with my inherited lead foot).
I got stopped multiple times on the way but at one the officer came to the window and started the conversation with “You’re rate!”…what? “You’re rate?” (oh I’m late) but I don’t know what for…late? Am i? well it is because the speed limit is too low… (and I thought because all of your colleagues keep stopping me)…he just laughed and let me go. So far so good. No trouble…though yesterday I did go into town and had forgotten my license…didn’t get stopped though…don’t plan on doing that again anyway.
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