So, today I get to Fourth Street my usual time early in the morning on my way to work and I find a rowdy mob of people grouped where I board my commuter omnibus to Newlands. The fare is suddenly $2 million. Yesterday it was $1,5 million, and a few days before that, $1 million. Ok you might think so what, talking about the country’s problems has just become a cliche, nothing is newsworthy anymore. I tell you, witnessing a group of respectable men and women in their suits haggling with hwindis is newsworthy to me. Often, they would just meekly pay an arm and a leg to get to work and avoid the hassle. I mean, for some of us, we now fork out $8 million a day to get to and from work.

A friend of my mom’s resigned yesterday. I found the circumstances almost a tad comical. Her husband phoned her from the office of an optician where he was meant to collect a new set of spectacles for her. He told her that the cheapest, ugliest frame cost $46 million. He highlighted that her transport from Chitungwiza is $6 million daily and she is earning $50 million monthly. There was clearly no point in continuing work so he demanded she resign immediately that very day.

Well, I’m sick and tired of it all, no food, no water, no lights, no cash, and expensive transport. The list keeps growing. I live from day to day wondering what else will go wrong . . .

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