Living in Africa you can easily see what life must have been like long ago for our ancestors in Europe. One example of this is that I'm often hit with the original meaning behind many commonly used expressions that are so old they've become nothing but quaint expressions to most of us living in the developed world. Take "it fell off a truck" for instance. The other day I was driving along behind yet another truck that was about to kill me and the kids with its unattached goods floating around in the back. At first the bouncy packs of toilet paper seemed harmless and I even calculated how much money I could save this month if a few packs met with my windshield (prices here for such luxury items are probably 4X the price they cost back home). It was, however, the large bags of rice staring at me as they hopped up and down in the back there (to the right in the picture here) that made me nervous enough to pull over to the side of the road for someone else to take my spot facing the firing line.
As I grabbed my camera to catch the truck in action I realized that when you get a hold of something in Africa that "fell off a truck" you're definitely dealing with stuff that fell off a truck.
