The racing-talent

If you are setting up a go-kart team, is short of folks and aiming for victory, you may be interested in flying in this guy for the event. His name is Moti, around 25 years old, of rasta-culture and drives a taxi between Albina and Paramaribo in Suriname. He is a real talent. I just wished that he had a bit different music taste. He was playing, in loud volume, tunes like “Rasta people going forward”, “Love your (rasta-) brother” and “My Babylon” for almost two hours.

Lying Planet says the route will take four hours but Moti managed it in only 1:45. The road is everything but good; there are big holes and gaps in the pavement. Sometimes you have to drive on the left side, sometimes on the middle and sometimes on the right (providing there are no meeting traffic). It seemed just that he had memorised the best paths for the whole stretch as he constantly managed to average 120-130 km/h on a very bumpy road, narrowly avoiding holes that would have made all the passengers bump their heads in the roof and changing “lanes” in a speed similar to the last level on an old 8-bit arcade video game. He took over countless number of vehicles, both lorries, buses and fast taxis but himself was not overtaken by anyone on the way to Cayenne (except from when he stopped for dropping off passengers; but he almost instantly took revenge). I was relieved when I, alive, was dropped off in front of a guesthouse in Paramaribo after some kind of a ride. Next time I go in a roller coaster I think I will do a Mr Bean and fall asleep. Who needs roller coasters anyway?