Things that drive me nuts
1. How Ugandans read the paper at work, and that is seen as "ok". Literally, if you have nothing else to do you can just sit back and read the paper. Or maybe I have a little too much New England-Puritanical Ethos in me.
2. How men use the bathroom with the toilet seat down, no matter which activity they have to participate in. It is just plain gross.
3. How you have to pay for each round of drinks or food as they come, otherwise there is 75% chance the waitstaff will add on additional drinks to your tab.
4. How the first words you hear from 7 out of 10 kids are "Muzungu, give me money."
5. The muzungus that do stop to give these kids money.
6. How newspaper writers use the "thesaurus" option in Word in order to make themselves sounds more sophisticated. It is like watching the Friends episode where Joey writes the letter of recommendation for Chandler and Monica over and over and over again.
7. How no one, black, white, indian, asian, uses car-seats for their kids. The only car seat I have seen in Uganda so far belongs to our neighbors. Everyone else lets their kids just run around inside the car. I can almost, almost understand the Ugandan point of view, but from the ex-pats coming from Europe and the States? No way.
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