<Funny Story Competition> From Nasarawa to Lagos

This funny travel story was submitted as part of the Funny Travel Stories competition on Hotels.ng. Read below and enjoy!

My funniest travel story happened when i was travelling to Lagos aboard Bonny Ways Motors from Nasarawa,some careless months ago. It was a night journey because we wanted to arrive in the day time. We got to Abeokuta around 6am the next day. While we were still travelling,someone stood up,and asked us to pray for a God’s guidance through the night. This fellow looked holier than even my church pastor.

He was around 65 years old. After praising and praying,he began to tell us about life in lagos(though that was for the newcomers),and the different bus stops we would stop before getting to the final bus stop of the travel company. For some of us who travel privately or aboard smaller buses,we were not used to the tricks. We were carried away by this man’s preaching that majority of us had to give our lives to Christ again. Especially,when he emphasized mostly on helping others and listening to their plights. Now,we were closer to lagos than before,then all of a sudden,he began to display some native medicines. Some of us had thought those things were for the healing of the nation as written in the book of Revelations. But how wrong we were. He started calling throat-cutting prices. I was petrified…the same man who just preached had become a business man without sympathy. I was surprised that the same man was displaying drugs that could enhance sexual performance or sports performance. He didn’t stop there,he also told us how a local gin(ogogoro ) could be of great effect.

As if one of the passengers wasnt in the know of all the man was doing. The man walked to him and gave him a drug for diabetes. Gladly,he collected,not knowing it was pay-and-carry. When we got to Berger Junction,the passenger was about alighting when the pastor-business man suddenly grabbed him and asked for his money. The passenger answered whether it was not for free he gave him. There and then the man shouted, “your papa,na you de feed me? Because i preach,that one na before. You don ever hear say Jesus spend 18 hours with people for one side?? Me i de this motor since 18 hours now,na him you de come say free. Now like so,na business. Give me my money jare-ole!” we all couldn’t help but burst out in laughter and amazement.

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