It's a significant change. OMO BOY realizes as he enters New York for
the first time.
He realizes he was no longer in Ketu when... he bought
cigarettes and didn't have to pay extra for matches.
His cigarette
box had some kind of scribbling on it by some guy who calls himself
the
Surgeon General! (never that in Naija!) he sent his 10 year old son
to go
buy him some liquor..he returns in the back seat of a squad car
and he's
about to get arrested! (very legal in Naija!)
He goes to the
bus stop
and observes the difference between METRO and LMTS-NO RUSHING! he
gets on the bus and found out he has to pay first before sitting
down!..
(I guess "MY BRODA GO PAY YOU FOR BACK" or "I BE STAFF" would
not work here)staff koo, cane ni! his sister claimed she could
actually
freely walk the streets without someone calling out different
names
trying to guess hers just so they can talk to her!
he wondered
what
everyone was staring at in a restaurant simply because he chooses
not to
use cutlery!("DEM NEFA SEE WHERE MAN DEY USE HAND CHOP
BEFORE"?)
...uuummm, not when it comes to rice, my friend! he realized
he could not order food in a cafeteria and ask for 'jara'! he went
shopping and could actually inspect the merchandise without buying it! (till today, he still half expects to hear that ever so familiar
"OGA
; YOU DEY BLOCK MY STALL O!IF YOU NO DEY BUY, GERRROUT OF MY STORE!")
It dawned on him that his wife, Bintu, can put an innovation
called
the stroller to her advantage-she doesn't have to haul the kid about
on her back anymore! (I know it's comfy guys, but it's rather embarrassing after the kid has had passed quite a bit of fanta through his system!) he boards the bus and no one is advertising anything verbally!
All
the ads are in cardboard! (remember the guys that try to sell you the
magic pill that'll cure everything from iba and ara-riro (fever and rheumatism) to ofinkin and lakuregbe!(the common cold and whatever lakuregbe is..don't know, and not planning on finding out!)
He woke up in
the
morning without the usual "ALLAH WAQBAH!" blasting out of 15
super-amplified loudspeakers belonging to 4 different mosques at 5
a.m
in the morning!
Hey, he could always start his prayers after Jerry
Springer is off the air!) he saw the police detaining a
shoplifter and
wondered why no one is getting tyre and petrol he saw
somebody cut somebody else off in traffic and all that came out of
the
driver's window was just one finger instead of all five!
...and
finally..he got sued for assault when he slapped the other driver
after
a fender bender!
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