The sheep box

Don't you hate it when you ask the shop assistant for help choosing something because you don't have much of a clue about the options available, they sense the weakness, and then sell you the one in the giant box with a sheep on it? Then you have to walk around the shopping centre, carrying a box so big that it could conceivably contain an actual sheep. Thankfully I don't know many people round here yet.

Behold the sheep box.

This week I also acquired my learner license, because the ZA drivers license doesn't count for much. The multiple choice test is kind of strange in that if you do the practice test on the web about 10 times, you are almost guaranteed to have seen every possible question. The "hazard perception test" is another matter entirely: You watch short video clip and click the mouse at the right time to "turn the corner safely" or "when you should slow down." Some are really easy like there is a big truck coming at you, slow down NOW! CLICK! The worst part of it is that if you click too early, you never see the end of the video clip so you'll never know if you did the right thing. Other situations are a bit more difficult like you are driving along a road, going straight at 50km/h, someone has thrown battery acid in your eyes so it looks like you're watching a pixellated youtube video at full screen size, you drive past a road sign that you can't see, and an empty side road, when should you slow down? I have no idea so I just clicked randomly through most of them and by some miracle managed to pass. That test must be a real money spinner for them because no matter how long you've been driving, on some of the most terrifying roads on earth (read: Corlett Drive @ 8am), you just have to click randomly through the test and hope.