MyComplicatedLoveStory Episode 50 Maga Don Land A wise man once said; ‘Don’t bite more than you can chew’. But if you are familiar with the Max Spencer’s law of ‘survival of the fittest’. You would find that quote quite controversial. What the hell does that have to do with my story? You may want to ask. Don’t mind me, the above quote is not connected to my current story at all, its just a story for another day. Back to my story… I, Tayo and other passengers all alighted from the bus and majestically walked into the eatery to do all sort of things ranging from snapping pictures to using the toilet, but I and Tayo hadn’t eaten since the previous night so it was obvious we just wanted to have our breakfast before we die of hunger. As expected we both scoped the sign board above the counter which had pictures of the available food combinations and their price tags. What we saw made us to nearly run away. ‘Guy! Are you seeing what am seeing? Or are my eyes not performing its functions properly?’ Tayo asked me in good english. That was the first time Tayo hadn’t Spoken to me in pigin in a long while. ‘Evidence of a severely hungry fellow’ I thought to myself and smiled. ‘O boy! I dey see am oh! One plate of rice for 4k, shey diamond go dey inside the rice?’ I replied in total shock. ‘The rice is rather reasonable compared to the tiny burger that is #1500. That guy who sells stuffs around U Lecture Hall in school sells his burger at #50 a piece and its same size as this’ Tayo replied in good english again, and I was starting to find that quite disturbing. We were debating on the prices of the eatery food stuffs when three girls who were in the same bus as us, walked past us and straight for the counter, after spending a few minutes they all turned and headed back to the bus with each holding a nylon filled with all sorts of expensive snacks. ‘I shall not be intimidated’ I prophesied to myself as I watched them walk away in total embarrassment. Tayo noticed what just happened and gave me a ‘O boy we don fûck up look’. He finally spoke out after I replied him with a ‘I dey tell you!’ look. ‘How much dey with you?’ he asked, totally forgetting his good english. ‘I hold 2k, but I go need 1k to go my house when we drop For mile2 or Cele, how about you, how much you hold?’ I asked. ‘Na just 3k oh, how we go do this thing na, I dey H die for here’ Tayo replied, and I could see he was really sincere in his eyes. I turned my thinking faculty on and an idea immediately popped into my head. ‘I know wetin we go do!, follow me’ I replied and led the way out of the eatery. I quickly scanned the environment and saw a shop where the food stuffs and snacks a short distance away and headed there. The shop had almost everything the eatery had, although with less packaging. We just bought a ‘gala cocktail’ and two bottles of La’ casera for only #500, and headed back to the bus which was already about to reload and continue the journey. As we entered the bus and zoomed off I had a last look at the eatery and smiled as I mentally said ‘God pass una!, Una head no correct’, cursing the eatery that wanted to run down I and Tayo. The rest of the Journey wasn’t that’s much eventful until we passed the Infamous ‘Three white statues’ of three men which all wore different attired, each representing the three major tribes in Nigeria; Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa. This signified we were finally in the city of lagos because the statues were place at the border between ‘Ogun state and Lagos state. After another few minutes of seeing the custom Yellow busses and crowd of angry looking people who were all rushing to where I don’t know, the bus finally got to ‘cele round about’ where I dropped after saying my goodbye to Tayo who was going to Mile2. I crossed over and walked down to where I’ll see a bus heading to Jakande estate. I had barely waited for 5 minutes when Lagosians being who they are spotted a guy who seemed like a J.J.C and decided to try their luck and ‘gba’ me. Gba means trick, 419, cheat, etc. A man who looked like one of those illegal Immigrants from India or there about, approached me and said; ‘GOOD.AFTERNOON. PLEASE.I.NEED.YOUR.HELP’ he spoke like he was reading his words directly from a book. I looked clearly at him, and he was properly dressed in a blue jean and red shirt to match; He seems honest, I thought to myself. ‘ok, help in doing what?’ I asked. ‘ AM.FROM.MALAYSIA.AND.I. WANT.TO.SELL.BLACKBERRI ES.HERE.IN.YOUR.COUNTRY’ he replied. ‘So what’s my business with that?’ I asked uninterested. ‘I.NEED.SOMEONE.TO.HELP.ME.CHANGE.MY.DOLLARS.TO.YOUR.CURRENCY,BUT.SINCE. I.DON’T.TRUST. OTHER. PEOPLE.HERE. I.WANT. YOU.TO.SHOW.ME. WHERE.I.CAN.CHANGE.THE.MONEY.AND.HELP.ME. COUNT.IT’ he replied. It sounded like a foolish scam at first and I wasn’t interested and just ignored him until he said; ‘I.WILL.GIVE.YOU.$100.IF.YOU.HELP.ME’ Now he got my attention...... Watchout for episode 51
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 09:11:06 +0000
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