Before the burst of the dotcom bubble postal services was the real deal it was the most effective way of communication. I recall going with my mother to the Postal Offices and send some letters. The attendants there were some old women who dragged themselves and were quite rude probably out of monopoly. They would take forever to attend to you and would take a one and a half hour tea break. After the burst of the dotcom bubble Postal services were wiped of and replace with Emails and other social site. It marked an end of an era and the beginning of a new one. Recently, Uber cabs made their debut in our country and have revolutionized the taxi Industry but some fellows don't seem to happy and all am asking is Can Posta lay a case over social media?
Those that think that normal taxis in Kenya have a case against Uber or Easy Taxi for that matter, are the good, easy Kenyans, contented, and those who demand mediocrity of their government. As a frequent traveler, Uber has not only saved me time and money but my life. I used to go to the airport from Rongai at 3,000 shillings, in a car that is almost broke down, always reading empty gas sign, and whose
Those that think that normal taxis in Kenya have a case against Uber or Easy Taxi for that matter, are the good, easy Kenyans, contented, and those who demand mediocrity of their government. As a frequent traveler, Uber has not only saved me time and money but my life. I used to go to the airport from Rongai at 3,000 shillings, in a car that is almost broke down, always reading empty gas sign, and whose
windows dont go down. Now I go to the airport at 1750 in a new car, with a working ac, with a groomed guy who asks which music I want to listen to, not the Kikuyu taxi man who plays Kameme fm and speaks in the phone in Kikuyu throught the journey.
I used to walk from my house in the dead of the night to go pick a taxi from Rongai to the airport, now the Uber driver comes to the gate and waits. We used to haggle over the fare price sometimes for a cool half hour. Now we both know none of us determine the price. We both know the price
at the end of the journey. Before they used to cheat me. Give me five minutes they would day. Just two minutes. Ni ka jam too hapa kwa roundabout. Now I see where the car is. I can drop a pin on it. Now the app calculates the amount of time before it arrivesto where I am. Now I can wake up and find a warm message on the phone. We thought you would enjoy a free ride today as our customer. 1000 shillings
voucher. Let me tell you something Kenyan taxi chietha. People outside your hellhole of a broken extortionist taxi system will come and suggest to you how to have some order. If you dont warmly receive that order, we will. If you think Uber is some type of foreign thing, well your phone is a foreign thing as well. Toss it in the river too. And your taxi car. That too is Japanese. Do away with that too. Just dont piss on our intelligence, accept its the end of an era and the beginning of another and move on
. Just go do some other business.
. Just go do some other business.
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