Pelican Water Taxi Sea Coach Freetown to Lungi Airport

            Customers of Sea Coach water taxi from Sierra Leone's capital Freetown to Lungi national airport are carried ashore across muddy river water on the arms of Sea Coach employees; the reason: at low tide the Sea Coach boats can't use their own pier. T.i.A.

After that unnerving landing, the customers are pestered for tips from those employees who carried them to dry ground. T.i.A.

The customers had already paid 40 USD for the 20 mins boat trip (plus a short mini bus trip); the customers had certainly not expected to have to be carried to dry grounds by humans in a scary, undignified procedure.

But this being Africa, you pay thrice: 1. you pay the regular price to the company, 2. you pay with your nerves for the unexpected horrifying procedure, then 3. you pay the tip to the employee. He did his job, and you paid for it, so you have to pay the tip on top too, right? The tip is what matters, actually.

His face makes clear that you haven't paid *anything at all* unless you tipped *him personally* grossly. 

And you haven't, have you. At least to him. And that's all that matters. You and the company don't interest him. He is what interests him.

If you *do* tip, he will receive your tourist dollar with a sour face: Your dough just managed to actively starve and strangle his extended family. You egoist. Why didn't you give the double, triple, quadruple  amount? He saw the bills in your wallet. The money's there, so it should be his. You didn't hand out those bills. Can you justify that? If you had a good heart, you'd help. You didn't. 

Shame.

Taken in: Sierra Leone / Northern / Lungi (show map)

Taken on: December 27, 2011

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