Every time he bosses someone into a seat or hustles a passenger off, people roll their eyes or smile complicitly.

NOTICE is hereby given that the business of butchery and fish-mongery carried out at Government Lane, Nairobi, on premises LR No 209/560, by Sadrudm Jamal Jiwa Mussa and Amina Sadrudin Jama Jiwa Mussa, both of Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya, under the name or style of Family Butcher and Fish Monger, has, as from the 20th day of June, 1973, been sold and transferred to Evangeline Celeste Muh and Benjamin Jacob Mwakio, Nairobi, who will carry on the said business at the same place and under the same name and style of Family Butcher.

These bits were fill-ins between what had to be said to carry on life and work and they were constant.

--and you have been weak enough, traitor, to listen to the eulogiums of a nurse on her child!"