Daily Commute

My office is only about 7km from home, but the drive can be quite interesting. Going to work, I use fairly main highways, but coming home, I drive through a largely Muslim residential area, dominated by a large mosque. It struck me on Friday that there were a number of things that I was passing that are a part of everyday life here, but that might be of interest to people living elsewhere. So, I figured I should make a mental note, and then write them up. So, here they are:-
1. A road surface that at one point is so full of potholes / craters, there’s barely a smooth stretch on it. Vehicles are now more likely to drive off road than to stay on it.
2. A group of 3 burkah-clad Muslim ladies chatting at the side of the road. All that was visible was their eyes.
3. Stalls of second-hand clothing, the clothes on hangers and waving in the breeze.
4. Turkeys wandering around, and getting whatever scraps they could.
5. A lady having her hair straightened at a salon (or ‘saloon’ as they’re often called). She was sitting on a wooden chair in full view of everyone in the street, the hairdresser using what seemed to be a cross between a hair dryer and a steamer.
6. A guy roasting maize on a jiko (charcoal stove), and fanning the charcoal to get it to burn better.
7. Cars driving down the wrong side of the road (or on the pavement) in a bid to jump the queue in the inevitable traffic jam.
8. Two foam mattresses under an overhang of a building. One had someone sleeping under a blanket; the other just had possessions left there, the occupant presumably having gone for a wander.
9. Stalls of fruit and vegetables, the produce neatly piled up.