LAFF IT OFF. . .

(This Happened Many Years Ago, Enjoy).
Late in 1994, an 87 year old man died in a village close to Amai, Kwale, Delta State.
The late man's grandson, Ufiaka, who was 26 years old and fairly educated, was given some money and asked to travel to Agbor to buy a fine casket for his grandpa's burial.
Ufiaka left base early and arrived Agbor in good time to purchase the casket and make the return journey same day. He was fortunate to get an open back white coloured Peugeot 404 pickup heading for Amai.
He, however, had to ride in the back of the pickup with the casket because 2 market women traveling to Amai were already seated in front with the driver.
On the journey home, they ran into a heavy rain storm close to Uronigbe and Ufiaka quickly opened the casket, laid himself nicely in the well padded interior, covered the lid and used the folded newspaper he had with him to leave a small opening between the lid and the main body of the white casket to ensure adequate ventilation.
The interior of the casket was very comfortable and Ufiaka soon fell into a very deep sleep.
The rain had subsided at the time the pickup van arrived at Umutu and during a brief stop there, 2 men travelling to Amai boarded the vehicle at the back and the same happened at Obiaruku where a man and a woman travelling also to Amai entered the vehicle.
All this while, Ufiaka was enjoying his beautiful sleep inside the Casket completely unaware of the new passengers who boarded at Umutu and Obiaruku.
The pickup van arrived Amai just after 5pm and the driver, who was now very hungry, stopped in front of a busy buka to have a quick bite before proceeding on to the next village.
The sudden stoppage and reviving of the pickup's engine woke Ufiaka who then opened the lid of the casket and rose up.
Trouble then started!
The passengers in the back of the pickup jumped out of the vehicle from various points and took to their heels in various directions.
The people eating in the buka including the owner and her service girls who saw the white casket open, and a "ghost" step out, ran off all over the place, some with balls of eba and akpu in their hands.
Ufiaka, seeing people running 'helter skelter' was convinced that armed robbers were operating and decided to take-off in the direction 3 of the passengers including the woman were running.
When the 3 passengers realised that Ufiaka was running towards them, they increased their speed and shouted "ghost! ghost!"ghost! and, to further worsen the situation, Ufiaka was dressed in white up and down with white shoes to match that day.
With the shouting of 'ghost', other people in their homes came out to see what was going on and on seeing people running at high speed all over, they joined in the race for their dear life and the number just swelled.
The driver and the 2 market women were the only people who knew what was going on and they had a hell of a time calming the people down and explaining that he merely needed shelter, while it was raining.
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