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My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody:
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Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by illicit(m): 5:11pm On Oct 24, 2023
I don't think you are normal
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by sanny1(m): 5:16pm On Oct 24, 2023
Is this novel or what, mtchee
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by PythonTutorial2(m): 5:17pm On Oct 24, 2023
shocked shocked shocked shocked grin grin grin
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Generalissimo75(m): 5:33pm On Oct 24, 2023
Interesting. Benin Republic people are known to be hostile to English speaking strangers. I think I like you and I would love to know you.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Offpointng: 5:41pm On Oct 24, 2023
This is more than a Novel. we need the Summary
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Wealthyonos(m): 5:56pm On Oct 24, 2023
Can we be friends? We can embark on your next trip together
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Sweetvie: 6:14pm On Oct 24, 2023
grin
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by youngreva(m): 7:16pm On Oct 24, 2023
Generalissimo75:
Interesting. Benin Republic people are known to be hostile to English speaking strangers. I think I like you and I would love to know you.
They are very terrible people
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Bintabisiriyu2: 8:23pm On Oct 24, 2023
You went to a new country to go and make friends, dem com chop you, you be jew.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Caleb15(m): 8:28pm On Oct 24, 2023
There and back on time
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by valicious1(m): 1:08am On Oct 25, 2023
this your story be giving the gods must be crazy vibes.

Can't believe I actually read everything
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 2:08am On Oct 25, 2023
Offpointng:
This is more than a Novel. we need the Summary
I’ll summarize someday, I just tried to be detailed enough , so future travelers can be aware
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 2:09am On Oct 25, 2023
sanny1:
Is this novel or what, mtchee
Not a novel, it’s a life experience
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 2:10am On Oct 25, 2023
illicit:
I don't think you are normal
Well, call me whatever you wanna, but if I died, and it was published, na then you for believe or say justice for so so so
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 2:11am On Oct 25, 2023
Bintabisiriyu2:
You went to a new country to go and make friends, dem com chop you, you be jew.
Well, thanks, it could happen to anyone, I only had good intentions
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Starboytwo(m): 8:51am On Oct 25, 2023
valicious1:
this your story be giving the gods must be crazy vibes.

Can't believe I actually read everything
you serious bro shocked You read everything shocked Damn.

I can't read anything longer than River Nile.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by PaganTerrorist: 8:53am On Oct 25, 2023
puto chupador de pollas
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Bintabisiriyu2: 9:01am On Oct 25, 2023
maturemindsonly:
Well, thanks, it could happen to anyone, I only had good intentions
Common keep quiet, it can only happen to jews like you not me, i be correct street guy, i don see things for streets i come wise.
First of all you are in a new country, you don't speak their language, they barely understand yours and you have no one there - that makes them a hostile country.
U should have lay low first with safety being your topmost priority and try to associate with minimal number of people, but instead you went and be greeting everyone. (Mr Social)
I laughed when i saw your novice like behavior, if you were even in an English speaking country it would have been easier
U don't even understand that language barrier puts u in high risk coupled with the fact that you don't even know who is who over there.
At times being silence or dismissive is not an act of weakness,
If i was among those bene republic guys and i see this very unwise Nigerian jew trying to act cool with people he barely know i would just pretend and monitor you later i will call up a few guys and we obtain you sharp sharp, after all you have nobody to call, you are alone and you don't even know the road to the police station.
What they did to you is normal thing that we do to jews, because jews are always waiting to be preyed on due to their very unwise and spineless nature
I detest foolish act from an adult coupled with cowardice and spinelessness.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by nwadikeokey11: 10:31am On Oct 25, 2023
Bintabisiriyu2:
Common keep quiet, it can only happen to jews like you not me, i be correct street guy, i don see things for streets i come wise.
First of all you are in a new country, you don't speak their language, they barely understand yours and you have no one there - that makes them a hostile country.
U should have lay low first with safety being your topmost priority and try to associate with minimal number of people, but instead you went and be greeting everyone. (Mr Social)
I laughed when i saw your novice like behavior, if you were even in an English speaking country it would have been easier
U don't even understand that language barrier puts u in high risk coupled with the fact that you don't even know who is who over there.
At times being silence or dismissive is not an act of weakness,
If i was among those bene republic guys and i see this very unwise Nigerian jew trying to act cool with people he barely know i would just pretend and monitor you later i will call up a few guys and we obtain you sharp sharp, after all you have nobody to call, you are alone and you don't even know the road to the police station.
What they did to you is normal thing that we do to jews, because jews are always waiting to be preyed on due to their very unwise and spineless nature
I detest foolish act from an adult coupled with cowardice and spinelessness.
I stop reading watever crap that fellow was trying to say here when I discovered how foolish and stupid he was. In fact the whole crap he postulated here didn't make any reasonable sense to me, so I deduced he was trying to make things up just to sound relevant, as I never believed all wat he was saying here. Or how best can u describe it? From borrowing money which he would repay in few weeks time just to go for tourism, traveling without money, calling his mom to send him money, getting to the beach in Benin, leaving his bag to a total stranger to go see the water, meeting a fisher man and making promise to get him an Android phone, etc. In fact I regretted reading the few I did. He's worst than a dummy, a slowpoke and an slowpoke all join. Honestly I don't believe in wat that fellow is saying here and if truly they happened, then he's truly an imbecilic, moronic, dimwitted asshole, period.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by HIGHESTPOPORI(m): 11:07am On Oct 25, 2023
People dey this life sha
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Therock5555(m): 12:54pm On Oct 25, 2023
Op you're a nice person, don't allow some comments here to deter you.

Just use your head wisely in a strange place.

Not everyone is nice as you are, some people take nice people for fools and would always try to exploit them.

If what you're saying is a true story and it happened how you stated it, then the girl, the bar man and others are in on it probably including the dude you dashed your clothes.


Bar man would be like, "this dude obviously has money, see as he dashed me phone, dash my boy cloth, rich kid"

Not knowing you were on a borrowing spree, thank God for your nice friends though.


Nice story, it's been long I focused on a post till the end even though I had to read some lines twice cause e choke.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody:
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Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 1:26pm On Oct 25, 2023
Therock5555:
Op you're a nice person, don't allow some comments here to deter you.

Just use your head wisely in a strange place.

Not everyone is nice as you are, some people take nice people for fools and would always try to exploit them.

If what you're saying is a true story and it happened how you stated it, then the girl, the bar man and others are in on it probably including the dude you dashed your clothes.


Bar man would be like, "this dude obviously has money, see as he dashed me phone, dash my boy cloth, rich kid"

Not knowing you were on a borrowing spree, thank God for your nice friends though.


Nice story, it's been long I focused on a post till the end even though I had to read some lines twice cause e choke.
This isn’t a story, I only tried to be very detailed so future travelers can be cautious. It’s a true life experience which happened few days ago
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 1:29pm On Oct 25, 2023
Bintabisiriyu2:
Common keep quiet, it can only happen to jews like you not me, i be correct street guy, i don see things for streets i come wise.
First of all you are in a new country, you don't speak their language, they barely understand yours and you have no one there - that makes them a hostile country.
U should have lay low first with safety being your topmost priority and try to associate with minimal number of people, but instead you went and be greeting everyone. (Mr Social)
I laughed when i saw your novice like behavior, if you were even in an English speaking country it would have been easier
U don't even understand that language barrier puts u in high risk coupled with the fact that you don't even know who is who over there.
At times being silence or dismissive is not an act of weakness,
If i was among those bene republic guys and i see this very unwise Nigerian jew trying to act cool with people he barely know i would just pretend and monitor you later i will call up a few guys and we obtain you sharp sharp, after all you have nobody to call, you are alone and you don't even know the road to the police station.
What they did to you is normal thing that we do to jews, because jews are always waiting to be preyed on due to their very unwise and spineless nature
I detest foolish act from an adult coupled with cowardice and spinelessness.
Say whatever you want, I won’t engage you with abusive words, you barely know me or what happened, and you jumped into conclusion. I pray you never experience such, and I have no time explaining to you
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 1:38pm On Oct 25, 2023
Generalissimo75:
Interesting. Benin Republic people are known to be hostile to English speaking strangers. I think I like you and I would love to know you.
I sent you a PM, you could quote me on another thread with your email or WhatsApp
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Therock5555(m): 1:43pm On Oct 25, 2023
maturemindsonly:
This isn’t a story, I only tried to be very detailed so future travelers can be cautious. It’s a true life experience which happened few days ago
For what it's worth, I'm sorry about how it all turned out, that shouldn't deter you from doing good just be more discreet next time.


Most people I help don't know until I'm gone, few days back, I went to buy cigs, one Mama came to the shop to buy a mudu of rice but her money was short with just #100, I didn't even look at the woman or spoke to her, I quietly paid for the rice on my bill and walked out.


I heard the woman screaming for me but I didn't turn, my Joy is knowing that she'll use her money and buy something extra, I needn't show myself because I am a good guy.


Do your thing but always use your head, just because you're good to someone does not mean they'll reciprocate, the universe always has a way to reward our good deeds.

Stay safe bro.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody: 1:44pm On Oct 25, 2023
Wealthyonos:
Can we be friends? We can embark on your next trip together
Yes, we can be friends
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Nobody:
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Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by Bintabisiriyu2: 1:53pm On Oct 25, 2023
maturemindsonly:
Say whatever you want, I won’t engage you with abusive words, you barely know me or what happened, and you jumped into conclusion. I pray you never experience such, and I have no time explaining to you
I already know you bro, based on your narration, and besides such can never happen to me cos i wont put myself in the position that would allow it to happen to me in the first place, don't worry all is well bro.
Re: My Bitter Sweet Experience At Cotonou, Benin Republic by brain54(m): 2:01pm On Oct 25, 2023
You traveled to a foreign country…


With no cash. You Just left on a borrowing spree?

Calling people to request cash ‘as needed’.

No plans… not to talk of a back up one?


Don’t know if this is living life on the edge… recklessness or SOMETHING ELSE.

I kinda like your personality though!
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