Travelling by road gives you the opportunity to meet a wide
array of people. After travelling for a while you will come to realise that you
will surely meet a certain group of Nigerians.
Below is a simple guide to a few of the many different types
of people you will while travelling by road in Nigeria
1. The Story Teller That Won’t Shut Up
They never shut up. These are stranger who just love live
and they just happen to be very friendly and chatty.
They always have a story to tell. They are very easy to
identify as they usually leave their common sense at home when they travel
2. The Rude Loader
He wants you to pay for every item that is larger than the
size of backpack. You will not blame him until you meet the . . .
3. The
Unbelievably Bulky Traveller
This person usually travels with the highest amount of
unimportant items you can ever think of.
Don’t be surprised if you find a grinding stone among or a
mortar (or any ridiculous item) amongst this person’s luggage.
4. The Human
Navigator
This person is apparently on this particular route all the
time and knows every short cut, every nook and cranny of this route.
They usually come in handy sometimes.
5. The Assistant
Driver
His job is to give the driver a crash course on how to drive
a car. And if the driver proves to be adamant, he will remind the driver how he
has been driving for (insert a very large figure) years.
Just hope you do not have two of this kind of people in your
bus, else they will annoy the driver to a river. Literally
6. Front Seat
Freak
They want to ride in the front passenger seat of the bus by
all means and this is usually for some personal (unimportant) reason that you
might never comprehend.
We like to think that they are trying to avoid sitting
beside an annoying passenger or sitting in the front passenger seat of the bus
gives them a feeling of control.
It probably makes them feel like the most important person
in the bus (after the driver of course!).
7. The Radical
Preparing A Stink Bomb With Their Stomach
They are going to eat everything they can lay their hand on
during the journey and trust us, it won’t be funny for the other passengers
when it starts coming out from the other side. If you know what we mean.
8. The Romantic
Couple
They are super chill and friendly. They are most likely to
engage in acts that will give the other passenger a mixed feeling of irritation
and jealousy.
9. The Couple Who
Seems To Be Trying Too Hard
You can tell they’re both equally in love and frustrated at
the same time. Travelling with someone else is never easy and when you’re in a
relationship you can only imagine it takes a little bit more patience than
usual. Like the worldly couple, everything they do is together.
10.The Student Who Is Just Resuming School
A couple gigantic bags of clothes and foodstuff enough to
feed a whole village? That is a student who is just resuming school.
Get ready for some professional level bargaining
11.Pastor Who Scares The Life Out Of You
This pastor is here to pray for your bus before it leaves
the terminal or during journey. If only he would pray peacefully and just
leave. He is going scare you with tales of where you are going to in case there
is an accident and you do not survive.
Who does that?
12.The Phone Addict
Similar to travelling with a couple but this person is
obsessed with their gadgets and married to their apps. They usually dedicate
their time to their phone even when there is not network coverage.
Whatever you do, don’t try and take their phone off them,
you’d have more chance trying to wrestle the prey from an alligator’s jaw.
13.The Person With A Caring Lover
They are usually members of a loved up couple who obviously
are divided by a couple of miles (okay thousands of miles). Your travel buddy
will constantly be on the phone with their lover.
And when they are not the phone, they will talk about their
other half at every opportunity they get. Not fun.
14.First Time Traveller
It’s this person’s first time travelling by this route, they
will keep asking questions like, “are we there yet?”, “Where are we”, “How many
hours do we have left?”
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
15.The Shady Marketer
You sometimes meet them before the bus leaves the terminal
or during the journey. They always seem to have a ridiculous product that is
guaranteed to work for a maximum of 23 hours or a drug that is going to heal
every disease known to man.
Piece of advice; don’t buy anything from such people.
Anything
16.The Incurably Sick
Admittedly some people get road sick, not that being road
sick is not annoying to your co-passengers but we are talking about the group
of people who are sick and just won’t wait to get well before travelling. The
Patrick Sawyer type of people.
They seem bent on infecting you with whatever illness they
seem to have contracted. Yuck!!
17.Those That Are Never Comfortable
They seem to be deluded that the bus is the couch in their
sitting room and will try their best to be comfortable.
Little tip? They always turn out to be master trouble
makers.
18.Police Who Will Demand A Bribe Or Delay Your Bus For No
Reason
This policeman will demand a bribe from your driver and if
the driver refuses, he will ask to search every bag in that vehicle (or just
ask you to park for a long time doing nothing) just to waste your time.
Since nobody wants that, drivers prefer to just bribe the
policemen except there is . . .
19.A Soldier Who Will Save You From Prowling Policemen
They will save you from the normal police hassle on the way.
20.The Policeman Dressed In Military Uniform
He is a soldier alright but we prefer to call him a
policeman because he behaves like a lowest of policemen you can find on the
street.
21.The Odd Couple
This may not actually be a “couple” as such, but rather two
people that are traveling together that you wouldn’t have thought would get
along. For example, a shy guy traveling with a really extroverted, and
charismatic person.
When you meet these people, your faith in humanity will be
restored somewhat as you realize that we can all get along if we want to.
22.The Average Amazing Person
They are usually your favourite person on the bus. You just
happen to like them for no apparent reason. They are friendly, funny and
considerate. You enjoy their company, and just wish you could keep in touch
with them because it is important you extend your network of good people (since
they seem to be rare these days).
If you are unable to see them again, just be thankful that
they exist.
You are really thinking that you are an Average Amazing
Person, aren’t you? Yeah right!
At the end of it all, no one is perfect. The truth is
there’s no perfect travelling companion, and any seasoned traveler will tell
you, that it takes a lot of compromise and understanding of that person to get
past the little time you have to spend with this group of strangers.
Have you ever traveled with people like these? How did it
go? What are some types you’ve met while travelling by road?
Tell us about your experience in the comment section below
SOURCE: Anonymous
SOURCE: Anonymous
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