Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Some choice advertising spotted here

Michaels Hairdressing and Barbering
Payoff line:
"Your looking is my proudness"

Real Milk (not the fake kind, you check)
Payoffline:
"Jolliment in a bottle"

Heineken
Payoffline:
"Chairman"
(guessing that might mean 'the boss of beers'?)

Anyway enough of advertising-it is fun, one must mention.
Not so fun was being rudely woken up at 1 am in the morning choking and battling for breath in an apartment that is filled with smoke.
Turned out that some wires (one or several of the spaghetti in the roof) was smoldering away under the strain of 450 Volts ( I read that on my so called surge protectors, which aren't really protecting me as it turn out).
I fled and found refuge in my colleagues apartment downstairs for the rest of the night.
So, its now about 6 in the morning and I stagger out of D's apartment, blanket and pillow in hand, dressing gown on, to the amusement and utter disbelief (to my seemingly immoral conduct) into the carpark in the compound in full view of the 3 drivers who are busy washing our transport.
No, no it's not what you think...there was a fire in my apartment...
Yeah right-was written all over their faces.
Never mind, I survived yet another Lagos adventure just barely getting away with my little life, nogh all.
Only hours later going to a business forum meeting at the German Embassy, my driver gets arrested for wrongfully turning into a one-way street (did I mention there is no oneway traffic sign?). Easy to fix the 'black shirts' though-this is how they earn their living. And they have found their ideal prey right here in Embassy road.
Such is life in West Africa.

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