all bets off

i said to duylinh that i was spoiled by the internet connection computers road safety customer service telephone networks food service hygiene she said no you're just being abused.

i finally got into the habit of carrying things on my head. i was carrying this suitcase on a muddy road in douala and everyone was yelling maybe at me. i stopped at the first bus with legroom that was going to bafoussam and got on. one thing you forget is that most poor countries are at least half children and the children clog up everything around the time school starts. children do not pay for public transportation so when children are involved the bus is more crowded and the mothers of these children have such huge asses from bearing all these children which is nice until you are sitting with four of them in a row of seats made for four people. some man was complaining about being sold a ticket to the wrong destination and he flipped. it would be ok to flip if you lived in a place where any bet was on. the women were screaming that we would all die if he caused the crash of the bus and the men were sitting quietly waiting until he crossed the line and would have to beat him unconscious and throw him in the gutter. no one wanted this to happen and women are sensationalists. well on an american airplane he would have ended up with like 15 years prison instead of 15 peoples' enmity. i think he had right to complain but i've learned that the customer is always wrong if it takes him disturbing 15 other customers to become right.

i would have made it to my first day of class like one third of the teachers but this time i'll have to be with the two thirds who likely have more frustrating circumstances than lost luggage and children clogging the bus system.