The struggle is real

Going to work last week Wednesday wasn’t a smooth ride. After dropping my bobo at creche happily, it was time to face ajeromi ifelodun local government area of lagos (ajegunle). The road was fine until I got to ijora. My beautiful white Toyota corolla was beside, in front, at the back of three trailers *whew* Not that am afraid of driving with these big vehicles, but the road was bad, one particular spot was bad, sorry I mean terrible. So I got to the office late and I had to narrative my story to my colleagues, they all pitied me and still said I tried been on the road with those killer vehicles. I sworn not to pass that road again until I hear that it’s fixed.

Today is Monday, another week begins.

Woke up early as usual and after my husband left for work, I decided to start preparation for bobo and I. Few mins later, my husband called that it’s seem the mobil filling station close to our area was going to start selling fuel soon. I rushed down there to meet a short queue, Thank God! I said 7:00am

9:15am, it’s a Monday and I have to go to work. it’s getting late but this struggle for fuel is continues , I chilled for another 5mins and then decided to leave. Imagine the hours I’d wasted and I didn’t get fuel still, sadly rushed home to prepare.

10: 00am at gbagada, am super late already, remember I don’t have fuel in my beautiful Toyota corolla so public transport is it for today. After dropping bobo with our hired keke, I stood at the bus stop for about 20mins, now at 10:30am, a bus came yaba! Yaba!! Yaba!!!, fadeyi total nko? The conductor said 150naira, no problem i paid.

Got to ikorodu road to meet one crazy traffic. Usually,ikorodu road is a smooth sailing road but because of the filling stations’ long queues, the traffic was real. We got to ijora then I remembered THAT bad road, to my greatest surprise, it’s FIX! waoh! Mr Ambode is work, Lagos is moving.

12:35pm I got to work… on a monday, very very wrong. I honestly don’t have an excuse for getting to work late, I might really need the fuel but it’s still not an excuse.

The struggle is real in this country, no fuel, no light, traffic due to queues at filling stations, increased transport fair, market women are now sooo mean, they call a price, you try to to reduce the price and they will remind you of how $1 is now #300. I haven’t lost faith in this government, there are definitely genuine and reasonable reasons for all these and people like me are still holding on…. But for how long are we going to wait for??

Did I tell you bobo has crazy heat rashes on his body? No light! No fuel to power the generator.

Isn’t the struggle real