ideas from africa that should be done in america

While many people think that Africa has a lot to learn from the Western culture, I am beginning to think that we have a lot to learn from Africa and today I'm going to give you just one example...

Have you ever been stuck in horrendous traffic and really needed to go to the bathroom? I know I have...for all the Houstonians and those nearby, I believe you will recall a time where you were stuck in traffic, if not on your way to work then I know most of you were stuck trying to get the heck out of Houston when Hurricane Rita was heading our way. If you weren't one of those trying to get out of dodge of Rita, I think you may be lying because it took me 20 hours to get to the Woodlands when it should have taken me 45 minutes (yes, almost two years later and I still have a vivid memory of that awful day) so more than likely you were there too. Back to the point of this story...this morning I was stuck in traffic and Dar traffic is insane. Unlike "home", there is usually only one way to get from point a to point b, alternative routes are very hard to come by. And then there are traffic lights which have been working more often than not these days, but for some reason the police still like to get out there and direct traffic. Now I know that they think they are helping the situation but they really aren't. They stand there and let one side go for like 10 minutes and then they let the opposite side go for 1o minutes and then they go back to where they started in case more people lined up. Now if they would just let the lights go, yes less cars would get through but there wouldn't be as much build up. This is logical to me, but I guess that's the point-it's logical to me. Again I'm rambling and I apologize, I blame my roommate because I believe I do it more when she is gone for a few days. So this morning we were sitting in traffic and I saw a woman get out of one of the cars in front of me and I'm thinking what in the world is she doing?!? The trunk opens and she pulls something out of it and I notice that it's a little potty training potty. I'm going to trust that she had a child in there but then again I couldn't see who all was in the car. But somebody needed to go and they did and then the door was opened and the pee was thrown out. Now that is an idea that we need to take to America. We definitely should start keeping little potties in our trunks so that if we ever get stuck somewhere we can pull it out, use it and then throw the pee out the door. I guess though that there are laws against throwing waste out of a car and I'm sure the other people stuck in the same traffic would be grossed out by it. But here it is a normal occurrence and no one has a second thought about it. Life in Africa, many times it doesn't make sense to me, but hey it does to them and who am I to question it. I love it here even with all it's quirks.