We need to organize a school debate with a motion , "village life is better than town life". I will be the proposer and town people like Emma Bwayo will be the opposer while Ezzy Brian shall be time keeper.
Village life is better because it is real life; town life is fiction. At around that time when the Bodaboda riders in Kampala and other towns were discussing the warship "emeeri", my village buddy was discussing real stuff with me.
He parked his motorcycle for 7 days and went to Kyabazzala in Kayunga to visit his sister with the hope that his sister's husband (his brother in law) will give him some money to clear his daughter's school fees. He spent a week in Kyabazzala and true to his expectations, he was given 100,000. Upon returning, he cleared the 70,000 fees balance. He thanked his muko and he thinks that he should be doing this every term.
The only thing I forgot to tell you is that he spent 60,000 traveling to Kayunga and back. The damn comfort felt after robbing even if the cost of robbing was higher than the loot.
"How much do you make riding your motorcycle everyday", I asked him to which he said 20,000 or more.
I went on with a barrage of friendly insults, lecturing him about the basics of life and how he should have known that 7 days on his motorcycle would have earned him more than what he actually got from his brother in law.
Educated people move around with a lot of lugezigezi and think that they can lecture everyone about life. So, this guy asked me whether I have ever gone for holiday and returned with a pay check.
"I went off duty for 7 days and returned with enough fees for my daughter. Can any bodaboda rider go for a holiday return with pay?"
That is why town life is better than village life!
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