Shaggy in Wandegs
Yes, you read right. I saw Mr. Bombastic yesterday in Wandegs. Grab a seat, some coffee, and I shall, with much pomp and flair, regale you with tales of bombasticity.
I was on a bajaj as usual, fleeing from Nakulabye, heading towards obscurity, when I suddenly heard sirens in the distance, and a crowd shouting. From the little I could garner at my hair raising speed, there was something about “Saggy”. I thought Sagara was in the hoood. Being the epitome of maalo that I am, and having seen the goateed fellow only once, I promptly told the bajaj to change course and aim for Wandegs, where the vuyos was.
Truth is, I was hoping Saggy had been arrested and was being manhandled by popi in that style where they grab your pants and put you in a compromising position that bees squeezing johnson and his two comrades, where your sole concern is not for your impending incarceration, but more for the safety of your family jewels.
So after a maddening chase in Nakulabye to Wandegs traffic, I saw fliers being thrown out of a car window, bloody litterers. A quick death-defying inspection informed me that they were PASSA PASSA Dance thingamajig fliers. What that had to do with Saggy was beyond my understanding, but I was determined to get to the bottom of this.
Suddenly, traffic stopped, courtesy of the human traffic lights at wandegs, the ones they call traffic police, those agents of chaos. But the wailing of the siren continued. The bajaj dude, by this point even more eager than I was, almost got us decapitated when he swerved right infront of some tipper.
And sweet lord… right infront of us was a mercedes with plates marked “Shaggy”.
I was in disbelief. In two phases.
First was my dissappointment that it was not Saggy being bundled unceremoniously into a wating police pickup with an Afande kicking his derriere.
Second, goodness!! It was Shaggy, Mr Bombastic himselef!! Right there, before mine own eyes!
Needless to say, the bajaj guy slowed down and asked me, “Owaye, oyo ye Saggy?” I told him nti, “nedda! oyo Shaggy, akuba ebidongo bya ba jamaica”. Somehow he cluck and stopped completely, doing so much maalo of his own he made me jealous. We were right next to the ‘cedes. Mr Bomb looked out the window and grinned at us. I almost fainted. This was a storo for the grand-kids!
With a screech of tires, the popi clearing the way for the dude sped off and his convoy followed.
Now, I ain’t gon’ be attending no show, but dayem, some things outta count for experience huh???
August 7th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Hilarious! Quite interestingly, I’m reminded of a bloke that asked once how excited we’d be if we saw Jesus walking our streets… of course everyone replied ‘very excited’ and then the same bloke said, ‘well he does! he’s that other guy on the street in every essence -the one you pass by!’ and then I thought, how very apt!
August 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Bambi, I will go one up on u and tell u that Shaggy once hugged me. The last time he was in Kampala at Munyonyo. Yes, I was one of the officials and I had to be in close proximity. I got a HUG!!!!!
So haha.
But your story is so funny. How could u change course of your journey because of one “Saggy”? Nkumaze.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:38 am
To think for a while I thought you weren’t like the rest of us humans …
August 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am
he should get his narrow arse back to .ke again on my birthday so i can get a special performance like the last time he was here. sigh.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Who’s Shaggy?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
i saw him too. and there was no ‘vuyos’ around the whole thing. he came to rehearse while i was doing my workout at lugogo on wednesday. yeah, fluked a pre-show sorta thing.
i think he is shy.
terribly disappointed he came off so human. i think i prefer him with all the gloss and make-up. could have been another bongo star for all you know; a bongo star with cool clothes.
his hanger-on, sidekick, whatchacallhim, that guy that was acting as if PA…that one…he was cuter.
that benz they are taking him around in is not nice.
his band sounded really cool! they be cool.
he didnt sound bad live. thank God!
was disappointed i didnt see anything from the dancing kids…thought i’d get some of that action but wapi, we gotta pay for it i guess.
hmm…have i rained on you parade?
but bambi his legs are nice. really nice!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:13 am
@ Zack, welcome to the weakness.
@ cheri, he hugged you?? I’m supposed to be jealous, but the very thought of being jealous of getting a hug from shaggy is wrong on many levels, so I’ll refrain.
@tumwi, we all have our flaws
mine is maalo.
@ Elite. LOL.
@ DeTamble. Shaggy or Saggy?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:57 am
yii DK nga me you have ignored me? hmm? i go to great lengths to collect rain for your parade and you don’t even….kale!
STOP IGNORING ME!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:58 am
LOL, jaz, you have so not rained on my parade. Me my things were not for the music oba show. It was for the vuyos/maalo in nakulabye/wandegs.
Much cooler than the show me thinks.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Bambi jazz, I cannot ignore you. You were one of our very first beloved commenters!! You have a special place in our warped psyches.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
i do? oh oh! era me! *blushing and glowing*
August 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Lol, see how chics get fooled by men…now Jaz has believed and even blushed because they said she has a special place intheir “warped psyches”.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Cher, don’t be hatin!!
August 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
eh mama, he smiled at you… but cheri’s hug beats that hands down
August 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
this is such a funny post…ha ha…so many hidden jewels(oops no pun intended) but then…the way you tell it, i literally felt your excitement as you swish swashed on the boda boda…but then where in the world was this mercedes packed in wandegs? I can only think of infront of “i feel like chicken” right there next to the rolex guys….i dunno know..perhaps its memories that force me to think of only here.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Wht do you have against this Saggy fella?
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