Dial - Season 1 - Episode 15

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 15

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Her name was Akosua b0s0mba, and she was from the town of Wowo.

I guess those two things should have put me off and made me steer clear of her: b0s0mba and Wowo.

‘b0s0m’ loosely meant ‘evil god’ in the Akan language, and ‘Ba’ meant ‘child’.
Basically her surname b0s0mba meant ‘child of an evil god.’

And Wowo…

Darn it, what in the name of Hades was Wowo? How could a town be known as Wowo?
I hadn’t even heard it till the day she mentioned it to me.

“I come from Wowo!” she had said.

That should have made me flee, because the name of that town was weird, to say the least.
But I didn’t flee…

Not because she was unbelievably sexy and beautiful with a body that was made in Heaven, no!

I didn’t flee simply because of the fact that adding ‘AKOS OF WOWO’ to the DIAL List sounded nice to me…oh, yeah!

But then again some things did sound funny and nice until they became serious.

The circumstances under which I met her were bizarre, and that also should have given me a warning signal.



Especially what happened to the driver of the Picanto car that almost knocked her down…
But it didn’t.

What happened to the Picanto driver? I would come to that presently.


It had been drizzling that day, and I was on my way back to the office after a business luncheon with some Chinese partners. I was in my car, rocking to some loud Lovers’ Rock reggae when I came to an intersection.

The traffic lights were blinking only amber, a clear indication that there was some fault with the light system, and so two policemen were directing traffic. One of them, a man, stopped the lane I was driving in, just as I was about to move, and so I stopped.

Traffic was flowing from the other direction now, and about a couple of minutes later the other police personnel, a woman, raised her hand to stop the cars from that direction so that it would be our turn to move.