Taxis in Conakry

So catching a cab here is a form of high tech hitchhiking. Place your right hand down and shake it means you would like to go straight on the road you are standing on. Hand up and shaking to the right means you want to go right after a bit and shaking your hand left means you would like to go to the left.
You do this shaking until you see a cabbie looking at you and shaking his hand in the same fashion, as he drives by you shout your desired destination and the number of seats you need. He will either shake his head and keep on going or pull over and open the door you should get in. You then walk up to the door and say your price and he agrees or doesn't.
Prices are 700 cents fg in between each MAJOR destination, some places it is 500 cents fg. This is supposed to be all standardized but occationally you get a bad cabbie.
I have been thinking that it might be useful to develope a similar system in Crested Butte. A certain hand waggle for the Mountain, Riverland, CB South, Almont and Gunnison. But then I'm sure most Buttian won't be having the Guinean four people in the back and two in the passenger seat shindig.
This seating arrangment is often unbearably uncomfortable and now that I understand more french I get when the driver I demanding that a large lady confess that she is not actually one place but two and that she should pay for two places beacause it is unfair for her to insist on four people in the back because that is no good with her there. She of course is adamant that she is indeed only one lady and will therefore only be paying for one place. After she makes her exit everyone sighs with relief and rehashes how she was really two places.
This reminds me that everyday Guinean conversation can be hilarious. For instance, "Look at those children running in the night like that, they will fall on their faces and then they will cry for their mothers. They should not run like that at night it is not good." Many things here are not good, sitting with your head in your hand is not good. Not eating a ton of rice is not good. Drinking water in sips is not good.
But there are so many things that are good here. I'll tell more later