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26 EPISODE 3: A FEW NOTES ON TRANSPORTATION
Cost efficiency, therefore, may require you to squeeze as many as 3 or 4 other people’s small children between your legs. Trust the experience of others; it is better to suck in your stomach and sit on your hip than to force the obese to budge up. And always avoid the last seat in the first row.
If it is your misfortune to get this last seat, closest to the door, you will undoubtedly have to share it with “the mate”. The mate is a small man, or a boy who should probably be in school, that directs the driver and makes change. His primary occupation seems to be to stick his head out the door and yell at people as he is passing by. “Come, come, come. Where are you going?” He handles the concerns of the passengers and can commonly be addressed by:
“Mate, you only gave me 200 cedis.”
“Mate, that was my stop” or simply
“Mate!!”
Now that fate has placed you in the very close
vicinity of this person, you can expect a few different scenarios.
