"Madame is having a good time"

A few weeks ago I had to go to the Palms for some shopping. This is a small mall in Lekki.

I went there with Ali, my driver. We decided to split up, normally he follows me, but I asked him to pick up a cupboard from an interior shop and in the meantime I went into the “Game”, a big shop where you can buy food and non food. After twenty minutes I went to the exit/entrance and tried to send a text message to Ali that I was ready. This didn’t work, then I tried to call him, this also didn’t work. I thought I didn’t have internet connection, but this wasn't the case. My pre paid card was empty. I simply couldn't use my phone anymore. How to reach Ali? There are guards everywhere and one guy saw I had troubles with my phone. He asked me who I was looking for, I told him my driver. What car do you drive in? he asked. "Well I know it’s a black Honda, and the license plate starts with FKJ”, was all I could say.

All the cars at the parking lot were black, and apparently FKJ is an area, so there were more cars starting with the same letters. After waiting for a while I decided to start walking over the parking lot myself, this is quite a big parking area and believe me, with lots of black cars! No Ali. Ali must have thought "Madame is having a good time in the mall”. After 40 minutes I decided to pay a guard a bit of money to use his phone and contact Ali this way.

Then all of a sudden he was standing behind me.

Thank God!