stories&nuggets

Have you ever wanted to visit somewhere new but had cold feet because of the stress that comes with understanding descriptions? Or you’ve always wanted someone to visit yours but your neighborhood doesn’t have an address? You have to now start saying, “the second left turn after the red gate, you’ll see a woman selling akara , enter the small foot path before the woman’s akara stand, walk down until you see a left turn, don’t follow that turn oh, keep walking until you see a right turn, after the right turn, there is a black gate, then after….” Your friend hangs up the call and you get a text “sorry, I’ll visit some other day”. Or home delivery is always a case for you?   Hello guys, Let’s talk about descriptions today I can boldly beat my chest and say that everyone has at least once been in a situation where they have had to get somewhere and had difficulties locating the place because of faulty description. Thank God for goggle map now but I still believe it’s not a...

One of those days I had to travel, I got stuck in traffic and missed the event I was going for but guess what! I met someone and had an interesting conversation with him. The journey ended up not being a total waste. It was a weird and interesting experience for me. So I sat in between two guys on the journey. Mr X was seated by my right while Mr Y, my left. I named him “Y” because why should I have a conversation with him… I felt he didn’t deserve it. Let me start from the beginning, please. We were all seated quietly minding our businesses except for me who was using my side eye to check out the guys seated next to me; their mannerisms, cologne or body odour, dress sense, etc, out of boredom oh not “aproko”….until we got stuck in a holdup (as per Nigerian bad roads plus those trailers that choose strategic bad spots to get spoilt in)…..our driver on the other hand was not patient enough and made bad decisions based on passengers suggestions….that’s how we spent close to tw...