I'm not sure how successful I will be at conveying the weirdness of this incident, but I will try. To preface this story I told my housemate maddy about it and she burst out laughing and couldn't get over it. So it is weird.
I have had a variety of experiences with motto drivers. Some roll their eyes at your attempts to speak their language, some are quietand others are talkative. In general they are polite and helpful. Yesterday I took a motto into town to go to the bank and try to buy a few things we needed for the house. It was extremely humid but chilly out and it is a long drive from where I live in Kabeza to get downtown. My helmet didn't fit right and the static of it rubbing on my head for 20 minutes added to the humidity and my hair was in a crazy state of affairs when i removed it. I absently swiped it out of my eyes as I looked for the correct change to hand my driver but I guess he didn't think that was good enough. While I was rooting in my bag he reached up and smoothed my hair and fixed it for me.
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I think it's pretty funny! I definitely chuckled out loud.
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh! Thanks so much for blogging again! I love hearing about your work in Rwanda.
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