Yesterday. Rushing to a hospital appointment. I book Bolt. Owerri bolt drivers always make me vex with their off app increments which are usually triple the prices.
I sha enter this one after haggling a 2,500 trip to 3k instead of the 4500 the thief wanted.
A trip of 8 minutes turned to a 20 minute horror show as the man drove round and round, having absolutely zero idea where the place was or how to read the map.
I lost my temper and started berating him.
“If you no know road why you dey do Bolt work?”
“You no go know road, you no go still follow map. See time!”
He kept claiming the map was incorrect, yet, each time he stopped to ask people for directions, they pointed him in the exact direction the map was telling him to go.
Omo. He would still not follow the road well.
It was hot and I was already sweating. I got angrier and angrier as 8 minutes became 10, became 15, became 20.
Him sef vex. But no be me go siddon allow person transfer frustration him use him own hand create for my body. We ended up spending like two minutes beside the road arguing.
The dude had the audacity to try to blame me say na me misdirect am with maps. When I actually started checking maps when I noticed him taking a U-turn because he had lost the plot. He knew the area, na the street dey confuse am. And maps was showing it was 2 minutes away. But he used strong head to turn it into another 8 minutes of endless driving.
I finally had enough, I unbuckled my seatbelt and got out.
“If I pay you make I know wetin cause am, ” I said and stormed out.
“Dey go,” he snapped back and reached to close his door which I had left open.
I checked maps. 3 minutes away. I didn’t have time for another ride so I switched to the walking option and paced it briskly to the hospital.
Got to the hospital. Saw who I needed to see and I went back to my hotel.
Hours later I reason the thing calmly. Yeah he was a shit driver but las las he was just incompetent. Na both of us dey sweat inside that heat. He did stop several times and ask people for directions. His sense of geography was just shit.
Went to my ride history to retrieve his number and asked him to send his account. Was even thinking he wouldn’t, but lol, he did.
