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office. There are no stones in that area everything being sand and as a special

reward we could touch the stone under supervision. How I wanted to throw it
around but that was not allowed even when I stood first in my class (it's kind of
expected in our family but as you know I'm the black sheep). Believe that's

where my distaste to the (male) teachers began! Who breaks a promise to a

child? Distrusted the academic side of things also from that day onwards for not
giving the promised rewards! Severe long haired liberal ways I say. Scandalous!

This reminds me of the old SAP v Army joke. Apparently a killer crocodile lived
somewhere in the Caprivi and to prevent it from eating more locals the Army

decided to catch it and get rid of it in a safe and gentlemanly manner as is their
way. Thus an operational plan was drawn up by the General Staff in Pretoria and

Special Forces jumped from sixty thousand feet to reconnoitre the crocodile for
two months. Thereafter and on their detailed photographs and drawings the

Engineer Corps built a decent lightweight aluminium cage to catch the crocodile.
Another six hundred men then chased the crocodile towards the cage where it

must be said they managed to catch & cage it another two months later.

Unfortunately it seemed crocodiles are like snakes and soon another killer
crocodile was discovered and this time SAP COIN insisted to solve the problem

since the Army had their fun already. The orders duly arrived at the local SAP
COIN Unit to arrest the crocodile within one week for they did not have time to

waste with planning operations. After all the orders were clear and concise what
more is there possibly to say or explain? By next week this time they expect one

killer crocodile under arrest and that is it. Thus the SAP COIN section (ten men
at the most for the matter is not that serious) sat around drinking for six days

and on the seventh after church got into their Casspir and found a much smaller
iguana that they duly arrested. They proudly displayed their suspect killer

crocodile before the brass who pointed out it does not look like the killer
crocodile the Army captured “being f ten feet smaller and of a different species”

(just jealous if you ask me). SAP COIN patiently explained they had a fatherly
talk with the iguana until it confessed to be the killer crocodile. Here is the

confession signed with his paw print and properly witnessed under oath. Matter
is closed and bye bye they have better things to do.

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