GOT CHEATED AGAIN😭

"Hausa girl, wake up and start preparing for your interview o, we don't sleep like this in Lagos"

"It's just 8 am na. My interview is for 1 pm. You want me to go there and start waiting?"

"There might be traffic, it might rain, and you can never predict this City. Just get up and get set. Better be too early than late".

Stumbled on this website lara.ng on twitter and it has been a lifesaver ever since. The website gives road trip directions, where you will get a bus or BRT and how much you'd pay for every trip from your house to your destination.

I struggled to get out of bed and get prepared. Peeping outside, I saw that the cloud was pregnant and it was about to rain so I hurried up and left the house.

Getting to Palmgrove bus stop, the rain started heavily and I had to stop at the fuel station at Mama Cass so I don't get drenched before getting to Yaba, my venue for the interview.

"Hello, I love your shoes, they are so classy," said a lady that was standing close to me at the pump station. "Awww. Thank you so much", I replied. "We should go sit inside the eatery, I don't think they will ask us to get anything before we could sit there". I agreed with the lady and we sat inside the eatery.

1 hour later, it was still raining and I was beginning to get worried as time was running fast and it doesn't look like the rain was going to stop anytime soon. I dialed K and he said I should walk over the pedestrian bridge and I'll get a bus heading to Yaba.

In my mind, I was like 'so I have to walk inside this rain?'. I had a thousand and one thoughts in my head but missing this interview or going late wasn't part of it. It was already 12 pm at this time.

I walked over the pedestrian bridge and didn't get a bus so I decided to board a Lagos Taxi. *Don't shout 'AGAIN', please*.😑😑

From lara.ng , a danfo is supposed to get me to Yaba for 100 naira from Palmgrove but your favorite northern JJC paid 1,200 for a trip that isn't up to 25mins. The cabman kept saying "there's traffic, erosion, this and that". Desperate me entered the Taxi and I immediately started crying.

I was drenched from head to toe, lost my self-confidence and preparedness for the interview and here I am being cheated in broad daylight again.

We got to Yaba in a short time and I was shocked that I just paid 1,200 for such a short distance. As if that was not enough, I got a bike from Yaba bus stop to Montgomery road for 300. I cried when I realized that it was a trekkable distance.

After this experience, I swore to never get cheated in this Lagos again. But is that even possible? Find out more in the next episode.

Till then, drink water and mind your business. Stay Bless.