Never
trust a pousse-pousse driver. Many of these drivers congregated and told us about
a "special ceremony" that would take place in a village outside of town. For $10,
one driver offered to pull us in his rickshaw over seven kilometers of broken
road to the ceremony. Seemed like a bargain, so we agreed. He took a circuitous
route out of town, backtracking several times, and then he pulled us to a nondescript
intersection. By now, of course we knew we'd been had, but we wanted to see this
scam through to the end. How creative would this guy be? He kept giving us his
"guarantee" and "sincerity" that a ceremony existed out here somewhere. In the
end even the scam lacked imagination. He stopped us by the roadside and said the
ceremony would come by anytime. When it didn't, we left him a few bucks and hitched
a ride back to town. |