Jide, our fantastic driver, keeps our minds active with enlightening and often humorous comments and evaluations on what we see as we drive in our little world.
This morning's words of wisdom stemmed from his accident report on an accident-busy curve in the road. Almost every morning from Friday through Monday there are drunk drivers who neglect to notice that the road turns and they fly up over the curb, hit the trees or posts, and often don't survive.
This morning Jide reported that 4 people were seriously injured but amazingly survived their ordeal in the wee hours of the morning. They had been celebrating because one guy was going to be flying out of the country in a few hours. That won't be happening now ... he flew into a tree instead.
Anyway, while we were discussing the crazy accident and the consistently crazy drivers all around us, we had a guy on our tail that was honking his horn ("horning") for all of us to get moving. It mattered not that we were stopped at an intersection that was controlled by traffic police. Silly us for obeying them and waiting.
I moaned something about the overabundance of crazy and pushy and rude and self-centered drivers (non of whom ever need any driving test to get their license!) and Jide shook his head in agreed dismay and said:
"People should know to leave their tempers at home every morning. When he gets home at night, a man's temper will be waiting for him and he can pick it if he wants to." (Note: this is correct English in Nigeria. You don't "pick up." You just "pick.")
Works for traffic and a whole lot more!
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