When you travel by bus in Nigeria, especially those buses from Ibadan, Lagos, and Kogi, or even from somewhere to anywhere in Nigeria, chances are that you must have met some passengers with their so particular idiosyncrasies.

In my travelling itinerary, I have become quite observant of these passengers and how they act or behave the way they do.
I must confess these people always make travelling experience worth the wait.

THE SLEEPERS

These people deserve the first spot here. The moment the journey commences, they start sleeping. It is as if they were waiting for the driver to start the bus. The bad Nigerian roads and the moribund condition of the bus do not have the power to deter them from their sleep.

Some even migrated from mere sleeping to loud snoring, oblivious of the chagrin they cause other passengers. These people feel too relaxed, as if they were sleeping on their own couch, even to the point of resting their head on your shoulders.

They are specially made and highly peaceful with themselves, in that they do not bother about accident, kidnapping, or other road concerns.

THE PREACHERS

In their usual characteristic manner, they will start the prayers, asking God to come down from heaven and drive the bus himself, and covering the driver and every other person in the bus with the saving blood of Jesus.

If it were a woman that anchored the prayer, and said it in Yoruba, rest assured that you’d say a quiet Amen even if you were a chronic atheist.

These preachers, and I respect them a lot for their whims and caprices, will then graduate from praying to little admonition from the words of God. In fact, this little admonition always metamorphoses into threats of hell fire for fornicators, smokers, and alcoholics. Oftentimes, the threats can last for an hour or more.

Few hours later, you’ll be surprised or rather shocked when you see her pick a call and she starts raining heavenly curses on her enemies or how she behaves discourteously towards other passengers in the bus.

THE FOODIE

These people do not have a modicum of empathy toward other passengers in the bus. All through the journey, they buy and eat anything buyable and eatable on the road.

They might be sitting down at the far end of the bus and will have the temerity to send you to get them boiled corn, walnut, Fanta, dodo Ikire or akara for them.

No matter how much stuff they buy, they do not have the decency to call you to join them.

Sometimes, you might even wonder why they entered the same bus with you because they look more privileged by their eating standard. Few seconds after they’ve devoured all their food, they quickly join the sleeping cohort.

You will be extremely fortunate if these people do not mess up the whole car with stench before you alight from the bus.

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