Ordinary Gweilo

Watching TV last night I caught a very amusing piece of fiction.

Yes, the one with the happy smiling minibus driver kindly requesting his passengers to fasten their seat belts. Then he turns the key in the ignition to start the engine before pulling away.

This must come from a parallel universe where minibuses are quite unlike the ones I travel on. Yes, the ones where the engine is always running, the driver stops momentarily for passengers to clamber onboard before setting off at top speed and crashes the gears at every opportunity.

Not that seat belts are a bad idea – in fact they will be very useful when the minibus goes round bends at 50 mph – but I fear that travelling on minibuses with always be ‘interesting’.