Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Phone cords, sandals and light bulbs…
Back in Kampala. Driving in to meet the team each morning I notice these guys coming in and out of traffic on foot. Some are selling papers (makes sense) some are selling airtime minutes for phones (makes sense) and then there are these guys with the most random pairings you could imagine. I saw one guy selling car cell phone chargers and women’s sandals. Another on selling light bulbs. Seriously when was the last time you were sitting in hot smelly traffic and thought to yourself man I need a new cell phone charger and then saw the pair of sandals he was pedaling and thought those look great I need them. Anyway I always concerned that these guys are going to get run over by the motorbikes that use space in between the 3 lanes of traffic (one of which I rode on today) Three grown men on a motor bike is quite a sight... for another set of lanes, but we all have to make a living somehow right? Gulu was wonderful, happy to be back in the sights and sounds of the city… looking forward to another week in Kampala.
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Yep. Same in Colombia. Maybe WE'RE the odd balls?!? Missed sales oppty!
From the book I'm reading that you must read when you're back ... the main character has just arrived in NYC from Addis Ababa, is riding in a taxi: "Two strangers, isolated and distant, in a car so broad that the backseat alone could have held five humans and two sheep ... my muscles were tense because of our speed, worrying about a child drying cow patties on the hot tarmac or the cow or goat that surely would wander into the road ..." Can you relate?!?
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