An Anago Man's Uber Experience

I am no city young man and this is no hidden secret; the very essence why I am finding the transition into my new life strenuously heinous.

But like they say, change is inevitable and when it comes you are left with two options: to adapt and to adjust, so I am doing both.

I know sometimes people around even find me strange. They wouldn't understand why I would abandon a plush air-conditioned vehicle that would take me to the office in less than 10minutes for rickety ‘trotros’ which are always accompanied with their own stench, delays and semantics.

But that's me. A free born with much love for the street and ordinary life and those who know me will agree that I am usually not comfortable with conformity except when professionalism and ethics demand it.

I have the same approach to technology and what has become innovation. The last time my Anadict friend and brother made us use the google map, we ended up getting to the event closed. Even with that we had to be helped half way.

Exactly why I've not been caught in the Uber crave! But like I say, everything and everyone deserves a chance. So I gave Uber a chance at the shot of my boss.

It wasn't to any place in the woods rather, to a very popular University which even a first time city cab driver can easily find and same applies to where he was supposed to pick me. Yet there I was waiting for the Uber driver while he roamed about locating me which took almost an hour not to talk of the long conversations trying to direct him to pick me.

That wasn't enough. I had another challenging task of directing him to where he was supposed to drop me off. Of course for cash. It was as if I was doing his job for him or better still being his ‘mate’. Even with the directions, he got lost so I had to keep my eyes open and took him through every landmark.

We finally got there and he pulled something showing my bill. Gracious! Is this Uber? Is it that they are failing to engage the right cabs or the app is totally not compatible with the Ghanaian situation? Or I am simply being a village man with no sense of appreciation for technology?

Well, whichever it may be, giving Uber a second chance will be very hard to do. Like they say, the fool’s testicle is stepped on once.