Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The things they put on motos

I’ve seen my fair share of things riding or strapped onto the back of motos since I’ve been in this country. The usual grocery run from the market, a family of 5 or even 6 (with an infant in someone’s arms), pigs in a cage, a whole row of live chickens hanging by their feet, bed mattresses folded in half, but never have I seen what I saw today while riding home from my English class for teachers.

Today, I saw a woman riding a moto, with a package strapped on back (nothing out of the ordinary); but riding on TOP of the package, not strapped in or in any sort of a container was her small white dog, balancing on its own, on the moving moto. I thought to myself, I’ve seen plenty of dogs in the back of pickup trucks, but this was a first…a dog on the back seat of a moving, travelling motorcycle. It seemed to be balanced alright, but it did look a bit scared for its life. Nonetheless they passed me and went on down the road into the sunset. And like many things I experience in this country….that was all there was to that.

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