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She taps the driver on the shoulder to either reduce the music or get rid of it once and for all. Meg and I look at her in amusement, I mean the music was mind blowing, we almost making the matatu a dance floor, feeling the beat, you know. As usual her complain was solved. She picks numerous phone calls giving gossips, she starts the conversation with 'Bwana asifiwe ....' then gives a sign off, 'but I am not sure, just don't say you heard from me!' Everyone looks at her, faces filled with question marks yet she is not moved, not an inch.
We alight at the same stage, and Meg is holding my hand and I get it. She wants us to run from the torture. Oh yes, I call it torture, how this woman gets people into slavery by forcing young guys to carry her basket, in the name of, don't be disrespectful, am old, you know.
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