01/03/2026
ALSO,nowhere do I get to exercise my assertiveness than in the PSVs.I am seated on the left side of the driver’s seat and this guy,looking bigger than me in size,and in age,insists that I should move for him so that he takes my seat and I seat in the middle
Those who know the cosmology of a vehicle will tell you hapo kati kati is where the engine sits and when it heats up,your buttocks can as well catch fire.Plus if the vehicle is manual,the driver can somehow intentionally dislocate your mandiballs when changing gear all the time even when it is unnecessary.
I told him no way I am moving kati kati.It is the middle seat that is not occupied and I came before you and occupied this seat,I am not moving
I tried putting sense into his apoyo-shaped head
Sensing that I am not gonna move,he gathered the manamba to plead with me and he inserted a new clause which was existè pas in the original argument saying he has some knee problems and he will see blues just like Chelsea will today in the hands of goal thirsty Arsenal FC at the Emirates if he seats in the middle.
I almost bought the excuse but remembering that if I deflected I would show weakness,at first I thought telling him to buy bis own car but this argument being weak because even me I do not have my own car I simply told him that I am not moving.
The Manamba is known to me by face.He would never support someone else especially that at one time I helped him Factory Reset his phone which had refused to catch network.
I stood my ground and the big-bodied man with apoyo shape of a head painfully joined other passengers huko nyuma…where phone calls are major,push and pull is the order of the journey and quarelling with the Manamba over fare is the denominator that unites them all even those sitting on the sambaza.
And {this is a bonus} the seat that he refused to take was taken by a beautifully looking petite ka-Gen Z lady who was brought in by the driver himself and I know you wanna know if I talked to her and yes I did talk to her,telling her the differences between Mombasa City,Mombasa CBD,and Mombasa County-she initiated the convo.And what did she say in return?…”you know more than most men I know”