Tension kwa Uber.

It had been a long day, I was scrolling through social media, and I happened to see someone share a screenshot of their Uber driver, who had texted them like this, and I quote “niko kwa nguruwe (a place where pork is cooked and eaten), a few minutes please, I finish eating.” Ilinikumbusha time fulani nilikuwa nimetoka shoot, late in the wee hours of the night with some other people and we had requested an Uber. There were four of us, all tired, but chatting away as we piled into the Uber. We’d wrapped up the shoot, and everyone was just ready to go home. After we had gone some distance, he casually asked as he pulled up to a petrol station that was just up ahead, “Kuna mtu yuko na mia saba, niweke mafuta, tutasort na price ya trip?” As the rest of us paused for a second, and then he added while an attended came over to the driver's side of the window to inquire, “Ikiwa mingi nitakutumia balance.” At first, no one said anything. Two p...