Peacock Cars

Mercedes, Africa's love story. They even have local names for this car.

He walked into a dealership that carries one of the ten peacock cars in the world. There are two types of cars: utility cars that move human beings and goods and peacock cars, that tell the world you wake up at noon.

He chose one and bought it with a credit card. Is that possible? Bicycles, I could understand that, not a vehicle with four wheels, not counting the spare tire. And definitely, not a peacock car. Anyway, it’s fiction, Daemon a scary book about gaming. It’s about hackers in the dark net, a subdivision of the internet. Fiction or no fiction, all credit cards have limits. That is why African Americans coined the expression, 'I maxed the card.'

It’s possible for a  millionaire to buy a car with a credit card, you argue. Is that right? I don’t doubt that NBA stars, J.K. Rowling, Tyler Perry, Lewis Hamilton, Magic Johnson, Sheryl Sandberg or Rihanna have a tidy sum in the bank, but surely, is there something like a bottomless credit card?

If millionaires can buy cars with credit cards, it means they don’t know the ‘e’ word, which stands for embarrassment, when cashiers say:

‘Sorry maam, your card is declined.’

On that optimistic note, I’m off to a peacock dealership to buy me-self a peacock car with my bottomless credit card.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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