Roger, you’re back and we couldn’t be happier! So, last week you told us a bit about the guys who had a few screws loose at Moroka Swallows during your time there. Now let’s get to the actual funny stories…
There’s two that come to mind. The first I’ll give names, the second one I won’t. The first one involves Larry (Cohen) and I, and we were playing Bloemfontein Celtic away, so it was a four-hour bus drive. The day before we used to travel, me and Larry would check each other to see what prank we would come up with today, you know. So, he said… he came up with a theme, it was ‘snakes on the bus’. I said, “Okay, what’s up?” So, him and I met up at the garage. We used to camp at Birchwood Hotel and there was a petrol station near there. So, we parked the one car there and we went to… s**t, I don’t know what shop it was. It was a Pick n Pay or something like that where they sell toys, and we went and bought a remote-controlled snake. It was like this little rubber snake with wheels at the bottom. So we took this to the bus now. Actually, (Siyabonga) Nomvethe was the first one we did it to. I went to sit behind Nomvethe, who used to sit near the front there in the bus. I put the snake down underneath (the seat). We bought batteries and all that, obviously. Larry had the remote control. “Bhele” was on the phone, I think to his wife maybe… he was on the phone with someone. I tapped him on the shoulder and I kinda whispered, “Bhele, just look under your seat, I think I dropped my phone. Will you just pass my phone?” So, as he looks down, Larry hits the remote control and the snake starts slithering forward. My man, I swear to God, I thought that day this is it, we’re gonna lose Bhele! I thought he was gonna have a heart attack. He almost jumped out the window, my man. He even dropped his phone. He was just screaming, and Zeca (Marques) turns around, and everybody is like, “What the hell is going on here?” That’s one of the few times that I remember Bhele not having a smile on his face. He wasn’t happy with us that day.
Ha, ha, ha, no one would have been happy with you after being on the receiving end of such a prank.
