Yesterday (pt2)
"na Buhari cos am".
Have you ever been in the sun,waiting to catch a bus for so long and non is coming your way? And you get frustrated to the extent that you start to confess all your sins right by the road there, thinking maybe this is God punishing you? Exactly, this was my situation that very day. After the long wait, I finally saw one(Bus) coming my way, although the thing was looking as if it needed help as it was more like a rusted box
rather than a bus. But who cares, I've waited for too long,plus I get to leave this wicked sun scorching my head behind.
Settling myself down in the bus,I saw an old man with his walking stick trying to climb onto the bus. Unknowingly, he knocked his head hard against the bus and I and some other concerned passengers sympathetically said 'ndo sir' (sorry Sir) but none of us got any reply from the old man .
'Umudike #150...Ariam #300" shouted the bus conductor
almost immediately and this took our minds off the old man and his head.
But then, the old does like to be at the center of everything as he didn't waste second before he provided the conductor with a 'hot' reply, "ehey, 'mechionu dia( shut up there), all you and your driver know is money,you saw an old man hit his head against your motor you can not even say a simple sorry. Nonsense!!"
This came as a surprise not only to the driver who has been quite ever since we got on bus
but also to every other passengers on bus, especially those of us who cared enough to say sorry to the old man.
"For my mind i was like Shuu
papa,how many sorry go do you nah, Abi nah sorry you con gather for bus".
'Oya,everybody yem'ego' (everybody pay) the conductor said and as if the old man was not on bus when the guy was announcing the fare for each bus-stop the old man had to ask again, 'Conductor, Umudike,ego le?'(conductor how much to umudike) I bet the woman sitting to my right must have been so pissed as well ,she said with a tone not too rude but not very friendly 'Papa ,the boy said #150 nah' and the old man got 'annoyed' again challenging not the conductor this time but the driver on why it's #150 and not #100.
The bus conductor rejected the #100 the old man offered and the man remained calm until it was time for him to alight then he offered the conductor #120 but this time with smiles. The conductor who was initially prepared for whatsoever trouble the old man would bring got confused and based on the so many 'eyes' ready to to judge him rude if he dare refuse to take the money from the cunning old man,he had to accept defeat and take the #120 from him.
Finally we were back on the road and I was getting myself readied to enjoy some peace now that 'the old man and the bus conductor saga' has ended, then I heard 'conductor no vex, na Buhari cos am' and that was the voice of the woman sitting to my right.. I was like oh god! not again ...
I looked at the woman, 'madam,what's Buhari's fault in all this nah?'
"You see na Buhari cos all of this" she continues....
(to be continued)
"na Buhari cos am".
Have you ever been in the sun,waiting to catch a bus for so long and non is coming your way? And you get frustrated to the extent that you start to confess all your sins right by the road there, thinking maybe this is God punishing you? Exactly, this was my situation that very day. After the long wait, I finally saw one(Bus) coming my way, although the thing was looking as if it needed help as it was more like a rusted box
rather than a bus. But who cares, I've waited for too long,plus I get to leave this wicked sun scorching my head behind.
Settling myself down in the bus,I saw an old man with his walking stick trying to climb onto the bus. Unknowingly, he knocked his head hard against the bus and I and some other concerned passengers sympathetically said 'ndo sir' (sorry Sir) but none of us got any reply from the old man .
'Umudike #150...Ariam #300" shouted the bus conductor
almost immediately and this took our minds off the old man and his head.
But then, the old does like to be at the center of everything as he didn't waste second before he provided the conductor with a 'hot' reply, "ehey, 'mechionu dia( shut up there), all you and your driver know is money,you saw an old man hit his head against your motor you can not even say a simple sorry. Nonsense!!"
This came as a surprise not only to the driver who has been quite ever since we got on bus
but also to every other passengers on bus, especially those of us who cared enough to say sorry to the old man.
"For my mind i was like Shuu
papa,how many sorry go do you nah, Abi nah sorry you con gather for bus".
'Oya,everybody yem'ego' (everybody pay) the conductor said and as if the old man was not on bus when the guy was announcing the fare for each bus-stop the old man had to ask again, 'Conductor, Umudike,ego le?'(conductor how much to umudike) I bet the woman sitting to my right must have been so pissed as well ,she said with a tone not too rude but not very friendly 'Papa ,the boy said #150 nah' and the old man got 'annoyed' again challenging not the conductor this time but the driver on why it's #150 and not #100.
The bus conductor rejected the #100 the old man offered and the man remained calm until it was time for him to alight then he offered the conductor #120 but this time with smiles. The conductor who was initially prepared for whatsoever trouble the old man would bring got confused and based on the so many 'eyes' ready to to judge him rude if he dare refuse to take the money from the cunning old man,he had to accept defeat and take the #120 from him.
Finally we were back on the road and I was getting myself readied to enjoy some peace now that 'the old man and the bus conductor saga' has ended, then I heard 'conductor no vex, na Buhari cos am' and that was the voice of the woman sitting to my right.. I was like oh god! not again ...
I looked at the woman, 'madam,what's Buhari's fault in all this nah?'
"You see na Buhari cos all of this" she continues....
(to be continued)
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