**update** - 2000 mile safari and he is going to Ghana next

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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:40 am

[Here is the lad 1, 2]

The safari is from Lagos Nigeria to Yola Nigeria, and maybe even farther. My lad is supposed to be picking me and jojobean up from the airport. He said that it is a 15 hour trip, which is exactly what I estimated it to be before he even told me that.

I just got off the phone with him to make sure that he is ready to leave (it was 7:00am his time). They were wide awake and ready to roll. I am so sure that he is actually going, that I really don't even need IP address confirmation, but I will try to get it anyways.

I rounded it to 800 miles because the roads aren't perfectly strait like the measuring sticks, so that adds extra length.

hopefully I will be able to post some recorded phone calls of me telling him that we are not in Nigeria. I also have a surprise ending in store for this guy, so stay tuned.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:32 am

On bicycles I hope Laughing

Good luck.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:13 pm

This is NEVER going to work. Jojobean is totally unreliable. He was supposed to show up several different times for a different lad and never did. All that ever happened was that the lad traveled for NOTHING. It was a total waste of his time and resources. The next time you plan a trip, I would not involve Jojobean.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:26 pm

Excellent!

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:01 pm

~YeaWhatever,

YW- I promise, this is the time I will be there. I know that things have not looked so good in the past, but I will be there this time. I am a man of my word. Please trust me on this one and do not ruin my name.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:19 pm

I know Jojo personally and I can vouch that anything he says is 110% risky free.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:38 pm

Thanks BW. My name is being thrown in the mud by someone who- not once, but TWICE, was unable to correctly bury a box of money and had it sink into various rivers/oceans. I have simply been unable to make 6 or 7 various meetings, due to reasons best known to me.

By the way, this chap supposedly rented a 20 passenger bus in order to fit the big screen TV, laptops and cameras that I am bringing him.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:02 pm

Geeezzzz.... I don't know how any of those nice law-abiding Nigerian citizens can trust you! You both should be ashamed of yourself! Rolling Eyes

Think you'll get through customs OK at the airport. I'd hate to see you let them down.

(And I hope the bus he rented isn't the urine bus from your sig...)

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:05 pm

I would not worry YW. I am sure that jojo will be at the airport to meet him. I mean, what could go wrong?

Btw, I need the help of somebody who has a readnotify account.

I want to confirm that Kenny is not lying to me about his traveling. I am starting to suspect that he may have lied about going, and that he plans to wait for us to get to London before he tells me that he cannot make it to Yola.

I want to send him an email to see if he opens it any time soon. If he does, then it would prove that he is still at home.

Let me know if you have a read notify account, and that you can send him an email.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:09 pm

Keyser- I have read notify on Sal�s account. I will email him in a bit when I get home. I hope it works correctly.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:03 pm

I just tried to call him and his phone is out of service. I checked some websites and found that Nigeria doesn't have very good cell phone coverage between Lagos and Yola. That gives some credibility that he really is on the road.

jojo, do you know what cell phone service he uses?

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:32 pm

I do not know what cell phone service he used, but I used my read notify and he did not read it yet! I think this guy is actually on his way there. He usually emails me about 2-3 times a day, and he did not even read my mail last night. I emailed him at 5:15 Eastern time and told him we were about to take off, there was a slight delay!

I think he is on his way. He sent me an email the night before telling me he had rented a hotel for his stay in Yola.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:47 pm

Nice work jojo & KS. Just make sure you get there in time. We don't want to be wasting people's time now do we Twisted Evil

You can find which cell service he uses at http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=phonenr

Then you can find coverage maps here:
http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_ng.shtml

I can look it up for you if you PM me the cell number.

There is a possibility of it giving the wrong info but it is quite small.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:15 pm

We are trying not to waste time- that is not the goal. But for reasons best known to us- it looks like we might have to land in Accra, Ghana instead!

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:25 pm

^^^^
Was the in-flight movie that bad???

You just continue to be so inconsiderate to this poor lad. He'll have to cancel his hotel reservations. And with gas prices so high, how will he afford to drive the bus the extra distance. Not to mention the extra fees on the rental bus. You should be ashamed! Razz

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:38 pm

HA!!!! I hate to say I told you so, BUT I TOLD YOU SO!!! Jojo cannot be trusted to get anything right! Now what is the lad going to do?

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:43 pm

Well I guess I am going to have to agree with YW. He was right all along. Thanks for making me look like an liar Jojo Rolling Eyes

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Bloody time wasters, that JoJo, is bang out of order Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:22 pm

He phone is still out of service. I was kind of dissapointed last night when me and a couple of my drunken friends wanted to talk to him during the plane change in London. I even had plane sounds that I was going to play in the background.

jojo, you check the IP address of the last email he sent to you? Can you tell where it came from?

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:46 pm

I have not received any email from him since yesterday or the day before. I can check the IP later. I would like to think that the fact that he has not emailed me means that he was probably on his way. Like I said, he normally emailed me about twice a day- and he even upped the ante here lately to 3 or 4 times a day.

Guys- I simply had a problem in flight. I will be there. Just in Ghana, not in Nigeria. I had some other business that I had to take care of with another friend, it just slightly interfered. I aim to please. But it hurts my feelings much that you guys think of me as so unreliable.

Crying or Very sad

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:23 pm

He left me a voicemail saying that he has been waiting at the airport for many hours. I could hear the airport ambience noise in the background, so I beleive that he is actually there.

I don't know what to do now. The plan was to call him and try to get him to Ghana, but the more I think about, the more I realise how easy it would be for him to catch me in a lie. He has probably already talked to the airport people, and it is likely that they have already busted a lot of my lies. I am afraid that I will not be able rebut my story during a live telephone conversation.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:31 pm

I thought you were only connecting in Yola, and were going to meet in in Lagos... Cool

Wikipedia wrote:

There's a proper runway with daily flights to Abuja and Lagos by most airlines.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:39 pm

I just called him and hung up. He sounds really pissed.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:32 pm

I realised that getting him to Ghana would be impossible on all levels. He can't just drive to Ghana on the spur of the moment, because he would need more money and preparation to do something like that. So I went for the short run and told him that I was in maiduguri, 200 miles north of Yola.

I recorded the conversation, sorta. It sucks because the recorder cut off just as I got comfortable. Soon after the recorder cut off, I got bold and went into a panic attack and started yelling at Kenny. It was funny.

http://members.419eater.com/~keysersoze/kennyairplanesounds.wav

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:41 am

Ah there is always an excuse to tell your lad. I used this with my lad.

I was detained at airport by custom offices for having laptops, cellphones and specially the giant screen tv. We will be out in two days time. Laughing

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