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The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by Ndkings1(m): 5:41pm On Dec 04, 2015 |
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 agberos life, his facade of a
street thug fell away and he was a vulnerable
emotional aspiring young man, just like everybody
else. 1 Like |
Re: The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by Ndkings1(m): 5:42pm On Dec 04, 2015 |
mods please move this to the right section |
Re: The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by Eesha: 6:11pm On Dec 04, 2015 |
Human beans ni gbogbo wa but only conditions and experiences differ. |
Re: The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by queennexter: 11:10pm On Dec 08, 2015 |
Wow!!!!This is amazing and touching as well... |
Re: The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by queennexter: 11:15pm On Dec 08, 2015 |
Eesha:Human rice nko |
Re: The Love Story Of A Unilag Babe And Bus Conductor (must Read) by OluwabuqqyYOLO(m): 8:34am On Dec 09, 2015 |
You should have added 'copied', bro. |
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