Why you should not walk on dividers or tracks

1. It is a common thing when walking on a road divider, to get carried away and slip into a daydream. If this happens, there is a possibility that you could wander into the part of the road with denser traffic, get startled by a drivers dog who decided to at that instant stick its head out of the car window and then miss a step.
I would leave you to imagine what happens when you trip on a busy road.

2. When you begin your journey, the road might appear narrow and easy to meander about. Often times, seemingly innocent empty streets pour out into busy (very busy) thruways. When this happens to you, you will be able to commiserate with all those poor 4-legged animals who find themselves in the middle of the road at night enthralled by the glare of car lights as said vehicles come at them with breakneck speed.

3. If you are not in ponytails/think Ben10 is super awesome, holding a lunch box and know all the flavors of Indomie noodles (usually known to children between the ages 3 to 11 years) you cant play the “I had no idea I was not supposed to do so” card.
It is plain odd to see an obvious adult with arms spread eagle going “tra-la-la” in the middle of the road.


4. Most railway tracks in Nigeria are like political parties in the country; functional today abandoned tomorrow (news reaching me lately is that the number of disbanded parties count up to about thirty something now. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? ) However, unlike political parties (I hope) every now and then, you catch a glimpse of an old prehistoric train dragging itself, carriages and cargo devotedly along the tracks.
It was actually fun to watch one of such occurrence in Oyo state, I wonder where the train came from/where it was headed.

5. Sadly, some road dividers and railway tracks could be the cause of fatal casualties as in cases where car owners loose control of their steering wheels and run into a road divider in a bid to halt their vehicle. Persons who were on road dividers when such incidents occur barely live to tell the tale.

I have about a dozen more reasons why you shouldn’t do the above title from personal experience and from hearsay if however you have the urge to do so every now and then, there is absolutely nothing I can say to make you change your mind.

As for Valentines Day, which was yesterday 14th February 2013 I have decided that the only thing I’d recount is a stern warning to aspiring romantics.


YOU DO NOT embark on a 2-hour journey, get comfortable in a hotel at one end of town and proceed to make an unsuspecting victim travel a bumpy and uncomfortable distance that sucks up about an hour of their life to get to you and call it a surprise visit.
I fail to see the surprise in that.
Seriously!!
Do not ever –ever do that.
Ever!!
It is so not cool (at all)

On getting to this point, it occurred to me that my initial intention was to do a piece on TGIF but heck, there is always tomorrow and the day after.

Have a lovely weekend and be nice to regular looking people.

The End