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Just passed by this flashy bus at the Entebbe Airport parking lot. The lads at my alma mater are having it easy. In stark comparison, in my day we were shunted around like cattle in what we christened \u201cThe Milk Truck.\u201d No, that\u2019s not me in the picture. For a school that was supposed to be grooming gentlemen and the country’s leaders, I resented showing up at girls\u2019 schools and then having to emerge from the back of a truck. For that sole reason, I made an unshakeable resolution never (even for one time!) to show up at any girls\u2019 school in my time at St Mary\u2019s. Oh. Save for the time I showed up for \u201cSocial \u201890\u201d at Nabisunsa. Or was it Namagunga? Boyo boyo, did this Christian boy have a good time! I did the Foxtrot. I \u201cpulled\u201d the SMACK Jabba. That day I was transported to seventh heaven. So much so that I moonwalked (while at the same time pulling Hammer strokes, in my hammer pants) to the Fellowship meeting room the next day, singing out my lungs (in cavalier fashion) MC Hammer\u2019s \u201cU Can’t Touch This.\u201d That hit was off the chart-topping album \u201cHammer, Please don\u2019t hurt \u2018em.\u201d I was only stopped in my tracks by the brethren (certified killjoys, those ones) saying the instant I had boarded the milk truck I had effectively \u201cback-slidden.\u201d Charge: I had \u201ccompromised.\u201d That was my label for the rest of my time at St Mary\u2019s. Except in the small matter of falling in love with a beautiful girl called Mona Tumwine, I purposed not to enjoy life too much when I joined Makerere University a couple of years later. You see, the same wet-blanket junta had extended their leadership to the Christian Union on campus. He! Ay caramba! Bitter-sweet (but precious) memories this fine transport has brought rushing back. So much for boarding the milk truck only once;-)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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