It's a significant change. OMO
BOY realizes as he enters
New York for the first time.
He realizes he was no longer
in Ketu when... he bought
cigarettes and didn't have to
pay extra for matches.
His cigarette box had some
kind of scribbling on it by
some guy who calls himself
the Surgeon General! (never
that in Naija!) he sent his 10
year old son to go buy him
some liquor..he returns in
the back seat of a squad car
and he's about to get
arrested! (very legal in Naija!)
He goes to the bus stop and
observes the difference
between METRO and LMTS-
NO RUSHING! he gets on the
bus and found out he has to
pay first before sitting
down!..
(I guess "MY BRODA GO PAY
YOU FOR BACK" or "I BE
STAFF" would not work here)
staff koo, cane ni! his sister
claimed she could actually
freely walk the streets
without someone calling out
different names trying to
guess hers just so they can
talk to her!
he wondered what everyone
was staring at in a
restaurant simply because he
chooses not to use cutlery!
("DEM NEFA SEE WHERE MAN
DEY USE HAND CHOP
BEFORE"?)
...uuummm, not when it
comes to rice, my friend! he
realized he could not order
food in a cafeteria and ask
for 'jara'! he went shopping
and could actually inspect the
merchandise without buying
it! (till today, he still half
expects to hear that ever so
familiar "OGA ; YOU DEY
BLOCK MY STALL O!IF YOU NO
DEY BUY, GERRROUT OF MY
STORE!"
It dawned on him that his
wife, Bintu, can put an
innovation called the stroller
to her advantage-she doesn't
have to haul the kid about on
her back anymore! (I know
it's comfy guys, but it's
rather embarrassing after
the kid has had passed quite
a bit of fanta through his
system!) he boards the bus
and no one is advertising
anything verbally!
All the ads are in cardboard!
(remember the guys that try
to sell you the magic pill
that'll cure everything from
iba and ara-riro (fever and
rheumatism) to ofinkin and
lakuregbe!(the common cold
and whatever lakuregbe
is..don't know, and not
planning on finding out!)
He woke up in the morning
without the usual "ALLAH
WAQBAH!" blasting out of 15
super-amplified
loudspeakers belonging to 4
different mosques at 5 a.m in
the morning!
Hey, he could always start his
prayers after Jerry Springer is
off the air!) he saw the police
detaining a shoplifter and
wondered why no one is
getting tyre and petrol he
saw somebody cut
somebody else off in traffic
and all that came out of the
driver's window was just
one finger instead of all five!
...and finally..he got sued for
assault when he slapped the
other driver after a fender
bender!
Source: www.ngex.com/lifestyles/jokes/coming.htm