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For those of us that know and experience Matatus<\/em>(Public transport) \u00a0on the regular , my sincerest apologies..yes me included in that mix. If you are unfamiliar with the term, please\u00a0lodge an inquiry with the friendly global know-it-all; \u00a0google.<\/p>\n So I have had the misfortune of being a passenger on some of the worst PSV(Public Service\u00a0Vehicle)\u00a0\u00a0out there. I am a regular in that regard… Being an unwilling passenger who has no car and who can’t drive. I therefore have no choice but to live on the ‘fast lane…’<\/p>\n Literally. Rongai matatus. Mnajijua<\/em> (You know yourselves!).<\/p>\n No I don’t live there. But they are the best documented example of what a deadly menace these PSVs can be.<\/p>\n Many of you could be wondering, “but Lola..if not Rongai, then where do you live?” I live in this country people. I am a member of Kenya and a resident of this traffic laden and undecided weather stricken Nairobi. \u00a0Yes, \u00a0I understand our problems.<\/p>\n I board PSVs all day every day( OK fine, four times a day), you might as well call me Doctor expert and give me a high paying job.. Haha.. Seriously.. No eh..offers? \u00a0Well OK I mean.. Wasn’t really expecting anyone to help out a sister in this difficult economy.<\/p>\n I digress. So I was gonna tell a story today, one of many I have scheduled\u00a0, but I just eyed this piece and hehe.. I’m not trying to write novels on here. So I’ll call this an introduction to the good things yet\u00a0to come. I will try my level best to post on the regular, my experiences on these PSVs that are a national headache, yet at the same time, are part of the Kenyan experience and urban culture.<\/p>\n Don’t we all love to hate ’em?<\/p>\n So for now, I leave you with one word.. Well OK two. Gute nacht. Which I hope, is German for goodnight!<\/p>\n Would you look at that. Useful information at the end of pointless banter. It’s not so bad after all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of us that know and experience Matatus(Public transport) \u00a0on the regular , my sincerest apologies..yes me included in that mix. If you are unfamiliar with the term, please\u00a0lodge an inquiry with the friendly global know-it-all; \u00a0google. So I have had the misfortune of being a passenger on some of the worst PSV(Public Service\u00a0Vehicle)\u00a0\u00a0out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/people-feet-train-travelling.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa77RY-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}