Stingy oyinbos
Often, when diplomats/expats of one form or another in Abuja's 2 or 3-year stint is up, they advertise on the Abuja expats list, selling the detritus they've picked up during their time. Its quite hilarious to read what they sell and how they sell it. Stuff worth 30 quid down Ikea is sold second-hand for more than it was bought for. Mobile phones, cars, sofas - all are advertised at more than their brand new value without a soupcon of irony. Its basic economics at work on one level: the unconscious exploitation of scarcity by homo rationalis. On another, its just oyinbos being stingy. I heard this evening that one expat recently sold a half-drunk bottle of whisky - for forex mind you (not naira). Haba.
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I second the haba. Na wa o. Whatever happened to good old generosity?
Ah! our oyinbos down here are not that stingy oh, they normally leave their cars to the drivers...but with all this kidnapping business, maybe they will have a change of heart....heheheheheh
Haba!You dey generalise too much Jezza. Oyinbo's who sell all that shit are the low class, poorly educated, small minded types, who should never have left their countries. There are lots of Oyinbo's like you who love and truly enjoy Naija, abi?
Haba!You dey generalise too much Jezza. Oyinbo's who sell all that shit are the low class, poorly educated, small minded types, who should never have left their countries. There are lots of Oyinbo's like you who love and truly enjoy Naija, abi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PlXh2clANM
I wouldn't say stingy, I'd say effing greedy!
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