I got on a Compliant the
other day (Compliants are buses that ply 111)..and noticed that one
seat didnt have a back rest..like it had broken off due to wear and tear
or somethin..not important. Obviously I dint want to sit on a stool in a
traffic jam so I went and positioned myself in a normal seat, near the
stool though. As the bus got filled up, I noticed that everyone avoided
the back-restless seat until the last person got in. It was a chick in
her twenties,who,on seeing the stool, frowned but had no alternative but
to take it.
I was as usual mindin my own business throughout the trip until I noticed the predicament she was in..everytime we accelerated, inertia pulled her backwards and she kept bumpin into the long knees of the guy seated behind her..with her back. From my calculations, the knees hit her around the kidney area..anyone who has ever experienced a blow to that area would tell you that its not a pat on the back. My point: No one in such discomfort should pay 80bob for fare. It should be subsidized to around 50 or 40..(depending on the value you put on pain).
Just then the concodi came round
for the fare. I was like "Maze huyu dame alipe chwani ju anaumia"
Sounded like a joke so some people giggled. She dint...wat do you expect
with the level of discomfort she was in?..Obviously the first
assumption was that it was a ploy to hit on her. As if. Anyhue for some
reason people supported the notion and pressured the kange to charge her
50bob....and he did.
After a while I leaned over to her and went like "So itakuwaje hiyo 15bob?" Actin all confused she goes like "ati?" and am like "15bob yangu" she's like "ulinipatia lini?" The nerve of this chick..Ok hold up hold up hold up..al bring you my readers back in focus...Simple maths: 80 - 50 = 30.....30/2 = 15!!..I actually redid the calculation in my head to ascertain that I wasnt demanding more than MY fair share...
OK the rest of the story is too ugly for me to share..it involves a police check, german shepherd dogs and scratches to someones face....but jus so you know I dint get MY 15bob..and you wonder why I keep my mouth shut
I was as usual mindin my own business throughout the trip until I noticed the predicament she was in..everytime we accelerated, inertia pulled her backwards and she kept bumpin into the long knees of the guy seated behind her..with her back. From my calculations, the knees hit her around the kidney area..anyone who has ever experienced a blow to that area would tell you that its not a pat on the back. My point: No one in such discomfort should pay 80bob for fare. It should be subsidized to around 50 or 40..(depending on the value you put on pain).
After a while I leaned over to her and went like "So itakuwaje hiyo 15bob?" Actin all confused she goes like "ati?" and am like "15bob yangu" she's like "ulinipatia lini?" The nerve of this chick..Ok hold up hold up hold up..al bring you my readers back in focus...Simple maths: 80 - 50 = 30.....30/2 = 15!!..I actually redid the calculation in my head to ascertain that I wasnt demanding more than MY fair share...
OK the rest of the story is too ugly for me to share..it involves a police check, german shepherd dogs and scratches to someones face....but jus so you know I dint get MY 15bob..and you wonder why I keep my mouth shut
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