When you're new to a community and you want to know about the people, befriend the children for their bizarre honesty, the elderly for their communal memory, and observe the traffic for the conduct of the people. A traffic in perpetual disorder typifies an indisciplined society. Yeah dread, actions on the streets are all allusive references to how people live and treat each other real-life
Pay attention: where people want to drive without proper licenses and registrations yet blame law enforcement for avoidable confrontations, where drivers are so reckless they can shift from one lane to another anytime they want, where none is willing to give way, y'know, so heedless of traffic rules and signs, like they alone pay road taxes, where a passenger will see 23 people trying to enter a 14-seater van and still join in the 'boohanteh,' that's a typification of an unruly society, where anything goes, and people expect everybody to desire or despise on their behalf.
Can you see how that last sentence sounds a lot like our Gambian democracy? Are we allowing others to live as we want them to let us live? Wait, you remember how those taxi drivers at Westfield will peep all over the place for no apparent reason, perhaps for the love of the sound of their horns? See how we have amongst us those who even if they don't really have anything to say, go from post to post yapping and acting "oh, no you didn't" like shanaynay.. yuh zee mi? Jekhna tak!
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