Just a quick one here. I wasn't going to put this in, as it happened a while ago and I forgot about it, but after discussions I have been asked to include it.
When we were in Ziguinchor (back in the Cassamance region, Southern Senegal), we were all walking along the main road towards town when a donkey cart passed to our right. Obviously, the donkey is ahead of a two-wheeled wooden cart, where the driver sits. The donkey passed Dree's eyeline and somehow Dree got his ankle ran over!
Me and Barney stifled laughs as Dree (not hurt too badly) leapt back to his feet cursing the cart's driver and donkey. He'd somehow got his OTHER foot run over - the foot furthest from the cart.
Now nearly a month on Dree still claims that the cart "cut him up" and he was walking correctly. This doesn't really explain how the OTHER ankle got ran over, and how he seemed to miss Eyore passing him by at just over walking pace.
Anyway, this has been the subject of a lot of jokes while we've been here; warning Dree of donkeys in the distance, walking (like a gentleman) on the roadside of the path and so on. Needless to say, he wasn't hurt much by the cart - only pride!
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