@MartienBall Notice how Dembele ran straight into the dug out. The urgency, the drive to come back and win. While Saka was sloppy in the nick of time. He was supposed to run down to the corner side and take it immediately but he's Assnal of course. Corner kick fc. Bunch of time wasters.
Last Thursday night I ran out of fuel on Third Mainland Bridge.
11pm.
Phone at 2%.
No powerbank.
I want to tell you what happened next.
I pushed the hazard lights on and sat in the car.
Trying to think.
Cars were flying past me.
Nobody slowed down.
Not one person.
Lagos at night on that bridge is a different kind of alone.After about 15 minutes I saw headlights slow down behind me.
A danfo bus.
Old. Battered. One headlight slightly dim.
The driver came down.
Big man. Rough looking. Dirty shirt. Chewing something.
My first thought was fear.
My second thought was I had no choice.He looked at my car.
Looked at me.
Said "fuel?"
I nodded.
He didn't say anything else.
Just went back to his bus.
I thought he was leaving.
He wasn't.He came back with a small gallon.
Maybe two liters.
Old plastic container with a rubber pipe attached.
Like he kept it specifically for situations like this.
He poured it into my tank without being asked.
Without negotiating.
Without even looking at me for approval.I started the car.
It came on.
I came down immediately and opened my wallet.
I had β¦15,000 on me.
I held it out to him.
He looked at the money.
Then looked at me.
And shook his head.I thought he wanted more.
I told him it was all I had.
He said "keep am."
Just like that.
Keep am.
I stood there confused.
This man just helped a stranger on a bridge at 11pm and didn't want anything.I asked him why.
He leaned against his bus.
Took a long breath.
And said something I have not stopped thinking about since.He said in 1998 he broke down on that same bridge.
Night time.
Pregnant wife in the passenger seat.
No phone. No money. No fuel.
He said he sat there for almost an hour crying and praying.Then a man in a big car stopped.
Suit and tie.
Looked like someone who had no business stopping for a danfo driver.
But he stopped.
Bought fuel from somewhere.
Came back.
Filled his tank.
Refused every kobo he offered.
Said only one thing before he drove off."Pass am forward."
That was it.
Pass am forward.
The man in the suit drove away and he never saw him again.
25 years he carried those three words.
Third Mainland Bridge.
Waiting for his own turn to use them.I stood on that bridge and didn't know what to say.
This man had been holding onto someone else's kindness for 25 years.
And he chose me to give it to.
A stranger in a car he had never seen before.He got back into his danfo.
Gave me one nod.
And drove off into the night.
I stood there watching his one dim headlight disappear.
Holding β¦15,000 I couldn't give away.I sat back in my car for a long time before I drove off.
Thinking about the man in the suit in 1998.
Who had no idea what he started.
A chain of kindness that crossed 25 years and found me on the same bridge.I don't know who that danfo driver is.
I don't know his name.
But somewhere in Lagos tonight he is driving that old bus.
With one dim headlight.
And a heart that has been quietly changing lives since 1998.
Pass am forward.
*What are you passing forward today*?
Karma!!!!!
You will definitely reap something some day.
Depends on what you have been sowing!!!!
@Nappyblaze Every woman is sweet if they have a good body. You people should just say it and stop this "older women" hype. All I can see is yansh and from behind her age is irrelevant to anyone looking from my angle. She could be 16 or 160.
@Cheriemike2 Why engage in that kind of activity when you're expecting a dispatch rider. So you would have put it on airplane mode so that when he arrives he'll call in futility and return. Fuel, time, energy, all gone? Your husband is wicked. Serves you guys right.
@instablog9ja Husband grandmother ke. Is the husband 25 years old or the grandmother is 105 years old or the mother gave birth to the husband when she was 16.
@endAmanl You can't banter us with coaches when we already banter ourselves with that. We've had some of the shittiest coaches for any big team in EPL in the last 10 years compared to you that have built stability with Arteta. We drag our coaches for a living.
@abdulwadudX Since when did changing managers become a problem? Or you've ran out of banter materials? The changing managers have given us more European trophies than you can ever think of. Your stability with Wenger and Arteta in the last 20 years has produced what? One EPL? Only? Shame.