Errand day so we take the dolmuş down. When you get on you tell the driver where you’re going, either the actual destination or a near enough shop or restaurant that you’re sure he’ll know. Alternative being looking out a not always clean window in order to tell him where to stop.
So we get on and I ask for Telsim, a mobile phone shop. Ask as a query because he’s headed the opposite direction, but almost certainly in a loop that will turn back east when he reaches the main road.
Except that we reach the main road and turn west. Now definitely not on the route. For a half mile or so. Are we being kidnapped? Definite lack of panic, or even interest among the other passengers so presumably not. Finally the dolmuş pulls over and a man and woman with a sleeping toddler get out, along with the child’s push chair/stroller. And we turn around and head east again.
Either the little family were people the driver knew or they had explained where they needed to go when he stopped to pick them up and he had taken pity on them. In either case, not standard operating procedure but not astonishing deviation from same. Rather nice.
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