The Alien Ugandan
Its a steamy hot Monday, everyone seems to be rushing to make the Monday kill, or at least they all seem to be rushing to get something done. A typical characteristic of Monday.
I was no different, there I was on a bodaboda rushing for dear life to catch a press conference for which I was 10 minutes behind normal time. I was saying every prayer in the book that the boda guy rushes and doesn't crash and that the Ugandan politician be ordinary.( Its quite an extra ordinary thing for Ugandan politicians.....no wait, Ugandans to keep time). Basically it was a mad rush. That rush where you forget to negotiate with the boda guy for a good deal. Any how back to the point, so as is another characteristic of Monday...there happened to be the mother of all traffic jams along Yusuf Lule. The sort of jam where even the boda guys have no way of fixing in between the space left by cars.
So there I was stranded and so with nothing to do I thought maybe strike a conversation with the boda guy but quickly wrote off the idea. Then I decided to just wait maybe look around and voila.....the heart of this story.....There they were, another class of Ugandans, alien maybe, not bothered by the bustle of Monday in there cute shorts and T-shirts teeing away at 11AM!!!! with of course caddys following them dutifully as they made their way around the golf course... None too bothered by the rush of a million or so people run-walking to deliver pitches of their lives to score them that big pay day.
So out of curiosity I decided to find out how much a set of golf clubs costs...And just like I thought a set costs you a whooping 1.2M and we are talking the moderate brands.Then factor in membership at these golf clubs, paying the caddy.....
Don't these people have jobs? Deadlines ? Some sort of something they have to attend to?
We are breaking our backs, baking in the sun and running after police bytes because there is a factory on fire but these alien Ugandans with probably abnormal inheritance are teeing off like its a Sunday...JESUS!!!!
We are clearly leading different lives,just co-existing in space with nothing alike with these people.
I was no different, there I was on a bodaboda rushing for dear life to catch a press conference for which I was 10 minutes behind normal time. I was saying every prayer in the book that the boda guy rushes and doesn't crash and that the Ugandan politician be ordinary.( Its quite an extra ordinary thing for Ugandan politicians.....no wait, Ugandans to keep time). Basically it was a mad rush. That rush where you forget to negotiate with the boda guy for a good deal. Any how back to the point, so as is another characteristic of Monday...there happened to be the mother of all traffic jams along Yusuf Lule. The sort of jam where even the boda guys have no way of fixing in between the space left by cars.
So there I was stranded and so with nothing to do I thought maybe strike a conversation with the boda guy but quickly wrote off the idea. Then I decided to just wait maybe look around and voila.....the heart of this story.....There they were, another class of Ugandans, alien maybe, not bothered by the bustle of Monday in there cute shorts and T-shirts teeing away at 11AM!!!! with of course caddys following them dutifully as they made their way around the golf course... None too bothered by the rush of a million or so people run-walking to deliver pitches of their lives to score them that big pay day.
So out of curiosity I decided to find out how much a set of golf clubs costs...And just like I thought a set costs you a whooping 1.2M and we are talking the moderate brands.Then factor in membership at these golf clubs, paying the caddy.....
Don't these people have jobs? Deadlines ? Some sort of something they have to attend to?
We are breaking our backs, baking in the sun and running after police bytes because there is a factory on fire but these alien Ugandans with probably abnormal inheritance are teeing off like its a Sunday...JESUS!!!!
We are clearly leading different lives,just co-existing in space with nothing alike with these people.
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