What does Bob Marley have to do with Burro Brand Batteries?

I’m so glad you asked, because Ankrah and I just knocked total battery sales stats out of the park (up by 8.5%, yes, that was just today!) Huge! We did 2 and a half gong-gongs today. I say half because we were so cleaned out from the first gong-gong at 8:00 that we couldn’t sell but barely anything at our second at 12:00. Fortunately we got a supply of new batteries driven out to us before our afternoon pitch. Then again, whamo! grand slam out of the park. This is going to sound bad but let me explain after I say it. If those villagers had any money this morning they don’t now because we have it. We didn’t steal it, they we’re just really stoked about the batteries. Everyone bought today. Crazy. (I’m just thinking to myself, I hope they don’t think this is going to improve their crop yield or something like that) They really do need it though. For example, we didn’t get back to the road until about 6:00, when the sun was setting, and it takes about an hour of 4 wheeling through mountain jungle passes to get back to town. And on all the roads you can’t see a thing (except for what falls in the pale glow of the TaTa’s headlights) and the roads are packed with not only goats and dogs and chickens but small children and kids hanging out and still tons of people walking back home from the farm or the well with a bowl of kasava or jug of water on their head. But that’s not so bad you’re thinking to yourself, because the pedestrians walk on the side of the road. And that’s when I say, “you’ve never driven in Ghana.” The roads are so incredibly potholed people drive off road as much as possible. I’m sure I’ll talk more later about the pitiful state of paved roads and how I’m going to fix it in a later post so the point here is that mostly you drive on the edge of the road with one tire on the dirt brushing the brush on the side of the road while the other tries to maneuver away from potholes. So short lesson, for nighttime safety get a torchlight and fill it with Burro Batteries because they’re half the price and won’t leak.