Maimuna’s Memoir: Manipulation

Farida’s first impulse was to keep quiet to avoid arguing, seeing as she was already furious, listening to the man rant made it worse. “Ooooooh, kai. If I had known this hold up would be like this I would have instead stayed in town. By now I would have made up to N5,000!”

He went on relentlessly as he joined the queuing vehicles, hissing and showing his anger and frustration at every opportunity that he could. Farida knew this trick, he was trying to work on her emotions so that she would feel bad and add some more money to what she was already paying him. “Kai, ooooooooooh. Honestly madam, your money go add o!” It was at this point Farida decided keeping quiet was not helping her. “See, Oga driver I didn’t force you to carry me, you knew I was coming here so please stop complaining. After all I’m paying for the trip.” She said.