Something interesting happened on my way to
Oshodi this morning. At the park this rough mean-
looking conductor also known as “agbero” in
Yoruba was screaming for passengers, his
vernacular oscillating between Yoruba and pidgin
English.
“Oshod! Oshod!” He shouted angrily as I along with
some other passengers scuttled for seats. There
was this beautiful young lady who couldn’t throw
caution and decorum to the wind but waited
patiently until the bus was almost filled. Then she
pleaded to sit by the agbero until somebody came
down then she would pay for a proper seat.
The agbero didn’t even look at her pretty face, he
hissed and shouted to the driver to move that why
didn’t she rush when others were rushing. The girl
started pleading in Yoruba and clean ‘oyinbo’
english; “please, ejó, help me out sir, I know you
are a good man, never mind all this shout you have
been shouting (people burst into laughter). Let me
sit by your side please”.
Finally with much squeezing of face the agbero
relented and she sat beside him. It was a tight
squeeze but she didn’t complain but rather started
praising the agbero. He in turn started teasing her,
speaking (and sometimes spitting by mistake) into
her face but the girl never looked away, she never
let the smile leave her face. He asked her where
she worked and she replied that she was a student
in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) studying
accounting. He teased her in Yoruba about her
boyfriend and car (maybe asking why her boyfriend
didn’t drop her at her destination…she laughed it
off and continued to gist with the guy in Yoruba.
When she reached her junction the agbero alighted
the bus for her to come down. She did and paid
her transport fare, then the agbero told her to give
him a peck on the cheek for being so ‘gentlemanly’.
At this point some of us became indignant, haba!
He had been teasing her since, he should let her
go. Another argument almost ensued between the
agbero and the passengers although it was not as if
the agbero was really serious, he told her to go.
Then it happened! She jumped forward and gave
him a peck on the cheek! We all shouted, the
agbero was quiet out of surprise.
She then waved bye and ran down to her street.
The driver and other people started to hail the
agbero, see hailing! The guy was just forming boss,
saying he knew he was irresistible etc and others
were yabbing (taunting) him, some were yabbing
the girl and we moved on and suddenly the bus
was quiet, show over. Then the agbero put his head
down and became uncharacteristically quiet. The
driver soon asked the guy why he wasn’t calling out
bus-stop abi the girl don do am jazz (cast a spell on
him). The agbero said something in Yoruba I didn’t
get and then his voice became emotional and
believe it or not HE STARTED CRYING. Others were
now consoling him in Yoruba. When I asked what
the problem was, the lady beside me explained
that the agbero said he just realised he would
never be able to get a girl like that in his life
because he’s an uneducated bus conductor and
she was going to be a graduate. He was weeping
because he knew no girl of her class might ever do
to him what that girl just did, to touch a dirty
person like himself; that the girl is nice and well
brought-up and if he had money he would have
chased after her. So the passengers were consoling
him in Yoruba that he would go higher in life and
be able to marry a girl like that. He should not cry
because it was not the end of the road for him.
That really touched me.

For a moment in that agbero’s life, his facade of a
street thug fell away and he was a vulnerable
emotional aspiring young man, just like everybody
else.

Cc lalasticlala Seun Farano

Eyaahh!!! Funny and touching

awwww

Well, I believe the gal kissed him cos he didn't make himself cheap at the first instance when she asked to seat by his side,considering the fact that the gal is fwesh,
*Modified*
Gals love tough guys, or perhaps bad boiz! Irrespsective of qualifications it's jus something they themselves can't explain!

wow . . . . . touching, eh.

well, he can be like my dad nah. who took his WAEC exam when he was 24 after he saw his very educated friend from afar while hawking meat. he eventually went to this same unilag and got a degree in accounting.

it's never to late.

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Well no matter how tough we are.... we all have a blindspot somewhere, somehow.