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Lagos-Living
Work/Life no balance at all
Angry commuters cursed out and car horns went on a blarefest at a small red sedan which had stopped abruptly in traffic heading to the city centre during the Monday morning rush hour. Most of the commuters were more annoyed that the driver of the stalled vehicle causing all the traffic was not making any attempt to come out to fix whatever the problem was with the car. The driver simply remained in the driver’s seat while a mile long queue had begun forming behind the red sedan. Solomon Araromi (not real name) got out of his car, squeezing his huge frame through the small door opening and heaved his bulk six cars down the line to where the red sedan had stopped. On getting to the driver’s side, he noticed that the driver — a woman — was slouched into the seat of the vehicle. He wanted to vent out an outburst before noticing that it appeared the female driver had lost consciousness.
Solomon was the first to find the body of Lara Bassey (also not real name) who died in her car on her way to work that morning at the customer service centre where she worked somewhere in Victoria Island, Lagos. Post mortem investigations later showed that she had died of a cardiac arrest. She was barely 35.
This is a true story, altered to protect the identities of those involved but told to highlight the lifestyle of the new age metrosapien and…
