Some passengers alighted at Orheptal and some more boarded.
However that was not before Baba Sixty-something had very nimbly switched seats
to the row I was seated. So nimbly that I
didn't notice until he turned towards my seatmate in the black suit (remember
the guy who had still had his elbow in my thigh?), leaned over conspiratorially
and whispered what I deduced to be, comments about the outlandish behavior of
the gentleman who had just dismounted alighted from the bus. I would
have thought they were acquainted the way the man was carrying on because he
repeated this same action several times more until Mr. Black Suit alighted a
few stops later (to my obvious relief). The latter however, studiously ignored
him, except the first time when he seemed to have given the older man the benefit
of doubt that he (Baba Sixty) was trying to communicate something tangible.
I shook my head again. The old man appeared to be agitated
about something and seemed to be trying to get an audience for his grievances. Na by force. There's such a thing as soliloquy, I thought. You need to try it, Sir
Meanwhile, the bus approached Idowuegba bus stop and the sixty
plus woman announced her intention to alight.
The conductor approached her for the fare again.