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Lagos Thrills

Lagos Thrills A drug hawker joins our bus, and, you know their drill, he begins advertising this highly efficacious deworming drug, or so he would have us believe. He went at it so convincingly that even one without worms may have considered purchasing a dozen. He left nothing unsaid to sway his hearers. He claimed the testimony of this wonder product had blazed through the island like wildfire. Then just at that moment, a woman at the last row behind exclaims (in pidgin), "Is this not Kewiz (the real name of the drug not used)? Wow! I heard amazing news about the medicine, but I didn't care until I started defecating worms myself last week. Then quickly, I went and bought the medicine and took it for three days, and my system cleared fffiam!" (You'd think her bowels became transparent.) She then turned to the man, "Please give me two, I need to buy for my brothers." Next, eight passengers speedily procured their own blisters of the drug. You'd wonder