My Lagos Experience! Episode 1

My Lagos Experience

Episode 1: Secure the bag 

Is there any theory, law, or manual that indicates that nights are for sleep or how did we human knows that when it is night, we need to sleep? Or is it just a tradition that started from way back?

Am I sounding weird? I was just wondering why most people sleep at night and not other time? I wonder why I also believed that the normal time to sleep is at night. Can it actually be changed or not?

Anyways, I love the night more because of the silence I get from it especially because there won’t be distraction. I do creative things more in the night especially when I find the solace within and the muse which is what happened this day- the night i was planning to go back to school.

My school is located in this city where every motorable road receives constant usage- it appears to be like a moving car park and a journey of a thousand mile will take you three times the expected maximum time it should. It’s so unpredictable that even as early as 5am it's still late on the road to have a zooming journey. I guess you know the city by now?

I hate traffic and would rather sacrifice to travel as early as 3am to skip it and that was my plan. So I planned to work through till 3am till the bus came to pick me up since I love the night and will also save me from sleeping off.

It worked as planned and we landed at the last bus stop and I alighted with my heavy loads; one at my back and the other on my head since it was too heavy to carry with my hand- Iya Micheal packaged a lot of foodstuffs for me.

Knowing fully well how desperate the people in this city can be and not doubting their professionalism at the time of the morning- was already past 4am- I was always turning my head back to see if no one is trying to ‘borrow permanently’ anything in my bag.

But still someone almost did that. I just noticed someone walk away from me wiping his face with his handkerchief. I suspected him but I walked a little distance forward before I dropped the load on my head to check if nothing happened. Though a soldier saw all that happened- maybe he didn’t but he was standing close by waiting for a bus I guess.

So I checked my bag and noticed one side have been opened. “Wow! So fast?  Thank God i took my phone away from there just before i alighted from the bus” I said as I zipped it back after checking through to see if he had taken something but he didn’t. I continued my journey but I was more careful this time until I got to the bus park going to my location- though I knew my carefulness is not an hundred percent guarantee of safety because “even if you secure the bag, some people are ready to secure you and the bag together” but thank God I got to the park safely only for me to see another mystery.

Watch out for the episode two of the “My Lagos experience”

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