Drunkards can be a bad experience, especially if known or related to one.
This worsens if they fall in the dependency group and pathetic if they happen to have been addicted to illicit liquor, as they end up considering anyone their sponsor for the day.
In Luo Nyanza villages, they are even worse and can even force you to land at night when no one is around to avoid an encounter with them.
They always pounce on you as soon as they get wind of your arrival, not even doing you the favour of allowing you to get a nap and recover from your long journey.
For those who manage to spot you while alighting, since most spend their time hanging around shopping centres in groups, they will not even help you with the luggage.
A conversation around how the city is doing turns into an attempt to pull out a few coins from you for the bottle before they leave hurriedly for the local drinking joint.
The bad thing is that you are never told what they really intend to use the money for, and will instead hear them singing drunk songs as they return, drunk as hell.
At times they forget that they will need your help tomorrow, and camp at your homestead insulting you and reminding you to remember home and not 'get lost' in the city.
"Duogo ga dala, we lal e boma (remember home, don't disappear in the city)" is the most common punchline.
Upon sobering up the next day, they will even get offended when you try to remind them what they said and some will even deny having been drinking in the first place.
They will then try to get a few coins from you again!
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