In your adult life, have you ever been slapped, well Meria was, let me waste your bundles with a hekaya.
It was in 2004, meria had been in Mombasa 8 yrs na nilikua namaside hustle mob, among this was kupandisha magari numberless Nairobi, used to be like once a week lakini kazi ikiwa mob was a car every day, yaani nilikua nalala kwa mbus ya kurudi alafu morning you take another car and the cycle continues. I was crazy those days, speeds 160 and above, we used to race one another up to Nairobi to find out who’s the man.
Anyway in 2004 the G-touring was the car in hot demand and they were being gobbled up by Kenyans like @kawambui na changaa, it was like my 20th trip kupandisha gari so I was experienced and knew many things about the road like where to take fare paying passengers so that you can get maximum returns on your trip.
Hii siku tulikua msafara wa G-touring 20, zote zilikua green, tukaondoka Mombasa at 8 in the morning na by the time tufike miritini mcezo ambao tulikua twapenda ulikua ushaanza, yaani pedal to the metal, finya kitu nginya gikaania (greek) hakuna mtu alikua ana taka kurukwa, vehicles were being delivered to a show room on Thika road. Ilikua ufikishe gari, ukamate pesa, uingie mbus ya usiku and the following morning you do it all over again. (it still happens up to today)
Sasa sisi hao tumepita voi, tukapita mtito, mchezo ni ule ule, you were being overtaken ukichelewa kupita lori, now after kiima kiu Meria was number 2, kuna chizi alikua mbele yangu na ata nijaribu yangu yote nilikua simpati, just before konza kuna mahali barabara ilikua imefula katikati ni lazima you had to align your wheels properly, this were the days before strabog and mugoya made the road, yaani barabara imefula katikati, mimi huyo nimeuma bottom lip am thinking about the guy infront (ungethania kuna prize tulikua twapewa ukifika wa kwanza) nikaona mbus imeovetake convoy of 6 lorries on my lane heading straight at me, nikamwashia mataa akawasha, jamaa ankuja tu, kuona jamaa ako serious kunituma kwa sir God had no option but nitoke kwa road, kupanda kile kibump kiko in between my wheels nikaskia metal grinding gravel, guess ma dere here know what happened. Sump kutoboka.
Took me a few hundred meters to stop and by then gauge ilikua juu, there I was disabled, siwezi songa mbele au nyuma, kama kawa meria hastuki, I knew there were 18 cars behind me na nitapata usaidizi, well I was so wrong.
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to be continued