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This is the worst thing that can happen to you in a public bus

A typical Lagos Danfo bus
A typical Lagos Danfo bus
If you've ever had problem with a conductor, this one is for you.
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Almost everyone has had a terrible public bus story, this is just one of them.

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You know those days when everything seems to be going right for you? When you manage to reach the bus stop and nobody stains your crisp shirt. Feeling like a classic man.

While you’re there chilling, you see one really nice lady and both of you start a conversation. A bus comes and both of you enter. You are even headed for the same place. Must be a sign from the universe. Must be potential bae.

Then you want to enter Danfo and the conductor looks like this.

But you don’t care, because you’re with a pinging baby girl. You enter the bus fast so you can sit beside her, at the back of the bus. Everything is going as planned. Then the conductor says, “Money for front”. You check for your wallet, but it's not there.

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“Oga, where your money?” He’s hovering over you now.

But the guy is just looking at you like,

You want to tell him that you had money in your wallet before someone pick-pocketed you at the bus stop. You want to tell him that this your starched shirt is not just packaging, that you actually have money to pay for everyone in the bus. Not like you’re rich, but you can pay transport. But in your head, this is his response.

So you just maintain. Everybody on the bus is looking at you like.

And someone beside you stretches out money to pay. “For two,” she says. It is the girl from the bus stop.

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You want to thank her but your mouth just keeps hanging like bad signal.

She just smiles at you and comes down at the next bus stop. You're grateful, but you know for the rest of your life, she’s going to remember you as that guy she saved from beating inside bus.

What is your worst bus stop story?

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