Those games we played in the 80's

Did you ever wonder where those games in the 80's we played but gave up to Salvation Army when they lay unused in the closet for several years? No? Well me neither. BUT.... I thought you would be interested to know walking back to the hotel here in Dakar the other day I passed by an informal vendor on the street who had her table out and was selling mangos. Guess what she was using as a table cloth? The Twister game 'board'!.. you remember that plastic sheet with the circles on it and having your head wedged up into someone else arm pit while you had cramps in your legs from turning them backwards just to keep on the red circle (which by the way was a prime reason why you never played more than a couple of times)... Anyway the majority of the vendors plastic sheet was hanging decoratively off the mango table... An attempt at a marketing/publicity lure for curious mango-eating customers (??).. because it is a bright and shiny with those different colored circles with a huge logo at the bottom that says... TWISTER!

What else did I see... ? Oh yes, Brook and I were coming back from dinner the other night and although there aren't a lot of homeless people in Dakar, you get some. We passed by a homeless person by our hotel sleeping outside a row of storefronts and who managed to attach a mosquito net up on to the store window and the other side of the sidewalk overhang.. in the middle of the walkway effectively. Doesn't have a home or a bed, but has a mosquito net--will travel. I'm just impressed how he managed to hang it up; that couldn't have been easy. That would be a good malaria ad actually... "Even homeless people are fighting malaria! Be Smart, Use your Mosquite Net!" ...or maybe not.

The other thing I saw actually was on the trip down to Dakar. I saw a big transporter truck. Across the top of the cabin truck were the words, "Too much is too much!" You know a lot of times people will paint prayers across the top of their vehicle, or the name of their favorite religious leader or a quote like, "A good deed is never forgotten". You know something sort of meaningful and you can sort of nod your head and say to yourself, "yes, that's true, God is Great... or "Yes, a good deal is never forgotten" I've just never seen the quote "Too much is too much"---I wonder who that was directed to... Us, the general public as some sort of blanket warning? Or perhaps themselves, the drivers, who have a tendency to excess in one area or another? I suppose I'll never know. I just know that too much is just too much.