₦airaland Forum

So here it is.....I usually just read for interest and entertainment blogs and forums from around the world because of the business i am in-exporter of vehicles from the USA. I can relate to this culture shock topic in a big way. Everyday i communicate with people not just from Nigeria but from other countries all over Africa, the Middle East, South America, the Russian region and more. And I am a woman and deal almost exclusively with men. Yes and I have been to West Africa. I love to talk but I find when I travel, I stay quiet because everything around me is different....so different that i figure the easiest way to keep everything cool and calm is to just stay quiet and observe.....
We all love our homes because we everything is familiar and comfortable.....the way people talk, the way people smell, what we eat, how we go to the bathroom (urinate and defecate), and for me as a woman.....how men treat me and I treat them.
I now just say....."that's who they are and they were made by our perfect Universe just like I was" and besides, it makes for forums like this where we talk about it.
Here is where I had to learn to laugh......I know when my phone rings in the middle of the night (I am in New York City) and there is a male voice demanding I send them pictures of a particular car NOW and Urgently......9 out of 10 times the country code on my phone is 234. And the standard reply from 234 after they see the car and the price......too expensive...... can you give it to me for half the price that you quote? (which happens to be way way below the cost of any DECENT and LEGALLY ACQUIRED car in the USA. Now if they don't say its too expensive and ask for the invoice......then I know it is DEFINITELY a fraudster.

And yes i eat with my left hand