Bola snatched up the earpiece from the dining table as she bolted for the door . This was her morning routine . She was incessantly running tardy and so almost ne’er walk out the doorway of her flat on her way KO’d in the morning . It was always a panache . In some other life , she would represent a sprinter . A runner . In this present reality , she was adenine tall , slender , and level-headed executive in the employ of antiophthalmic factor media agency in Lagos . Her trip to work from her Maryland apartment was a one-hour drive to Ikoyi , where her office was located . It ever start with that trademark dash for the door . Every other day , she would forget to pluck upwards her phone along the room out . Today had not been one of those days . Her early dawning drill had been accomplish to perfection this time a dash to the bathroom , back to the room for a nimble dress up , a few shuttles ‘tween the surviving room and the love way , and then antiophthalmic factor bee line for the threshold . Outside , the car WA waiting , dirt-stained from the former days ordeal on Lagos roads . She called it the Beast . There was a special love affair between Bola and her gondola , merely this was non time for kiss and hugs . She jumped indium , rouse up the engine rudely and back out of the yard . In a few minutes , she had left her residence behind and make up making a turn into Ikorodu road . The first streaks of day be just breaking out , but a quick glance over of the highway tell her that traffic was building up already and would likely get bad in another few instant . drive in the bustling city of Lagos was all about timing and organism smart , and Monday morning drive be the worst . Her right infantry floored the acceleration pedal care ampere Formula One race driver . Fortunately , the Beast was no Formula One railroad car and didnt clock 100 kilometres per hour in 6 seconds . But it exist good enough for her purposes . She be no slouch at the wheels of ampere car or astatine anything that she did for that matter . As she exited the side lane astatine Anthony Village , she see her smartphone beep . The classifiable sound told her that she had new email along her power invoice . She had position up her email notifications such that she could recognise body of work mails just from the buzz without her needing to take a peek . In her line of work , that be a productivity hack that had descend in useful repeatedly . Dont these clients get adenine life ? She croak . mail at 6am ! She didnt reach for the equipment . No matter how urgent the chain armour was , she know better than to let herself get perturb while at the wheels . Email , SMS and part calls were group A no-no while driving , unless she had antiophthalmic factor headset along , which constitute okay for solely the most important holler . She was no slouch , but she was no daredevil either . Breaking the compactness that the car and the road ahead required to go to to a call up call or message was courting trouble , especially at 6am in the morning when everyone ram same a demon was after them . She scanned the road ahead , saw amp clear opening move , and floored the pedal again . The Beast roared clamorously in the cool dayspring weather Eastern Samoa information technology responded to her demand and then eased into axerophthol smooth purr as she settled into the period of dealings . She was humming one of her favourite tunes instantly . Her liquor cost high this break of day , but she know from the intermittent beeps coming from her smartphone that this was going to be one heck of angstrom unit day at form . I hate Monday mornings ! she murmur , a she became one with the traffic on the giant concrete snake that connected Yaba Mainland with the islands of Lagos metropolis . Stay tuned for the next episode ofMOBILISTA .