It happened one Tuesday evening as I was driving home amid normal traffic on Eko bridge.\u00a0For some reason, I wasn\u2019t upset by the congestion that day despite my tired state, and in fact, I was all chatty with my colleagues who were in the car with me, until I noticed a little commotion ahead of us.<\/p>\n
Driving slowly past the scene, all I could see was a truck and a salon car parked, with two men and a woman arguing- the driver of the salon car, I perceived to be the woman. Somehow, I felt the lady was being intimidated, so I decided to put on my detective cloak *cues in Sherlock Holmes soundtrack*.<\/p>\n
Without a second thought, I immediately parked, excused myself from the car, determined to help resolve the issue. Getting to the scene, I could tell that the truck had scratched the lady\u2019s car and\u00a0couldn’t fathom why\u00a0the\u00a0truck drivers\u00a0prevented her from driving off in her car.\u00a0So,\u00a0I moved closer to the truck drivers\u00a0(the men) and questioned them. They admitted to scratching her car and added that the lady came down to retaliate by banging on their windshield which resulted in a crack.<\/p>\n
There are two sides to a story, right? Of course, I turned to listen to the woman. She confessed to\u00a0touching the windscreen but\u00a0claimed that\u00a0she did\u00a0so\u00a0lightly\u00a0and it\u00a0could not have led to any crack. Wow! What a difficult situation!<\/p>\n
By the time the woman\u00a0had\u00a0fully\u00a0narrated her story, another kind Samaritan: a guy,\u00a0had also parked his car\u00a0to join us in resolving the issue. Then, we started pleading with the truck drivers on the woman\u2019s behalf. After about 3 mins of begging and a series of loud horns blaring at us for causing more traffic on the bridge, the truck drivers eventually bulged and let the woman go scot-free.<\/p>\n
Thinking\u00a0back to that\u00a0scene makes me smile\u00a0why? Because I can say that I took a risk to be selfless. Many drivers in Lagos know that it is quite risky to stop on a bridge prone to area boys especially if met with a chaotic situation. Such commotion could be staged to deceive well-meaning Nigerians and rob them-\u00a0that\u2019s like Driving in Lagos 101.<\/em>\u00a0Glad that this was not the case on that day.<\/p>\n One thing about me is\u00a0I can’t stand\u00a0being cheated or\u00a0the sight\u00a0of another person\u00a0treated unfairly. This was most-certainly what motivated me to intervene that Tuesday night, despite what was at stake.<\/p>\n So, whenever\u00a0I remember\u00a0that day,\u00a0I am glad\u00a0I\u00a0allowed the ‘crazy’ Tosin to take charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It happened one Tuesday evening as I was driving home amid normal traffic on Eko bridge.\u00a0For some reason, I wasn\u2019t upset by the congestion that day despite my tired state, and in fact, I was all chatty with my colleagues who were in the car with me, until I noticed a little commotion ahead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}