I Spent a Day as a Chowdeck Rider in Lagos. I Wasn't Ready.

Every time you open Chowdeck and place an order, someone gets on a bike in Lagos traffic to bring it to you. In the rain. In the heat. Through every junction on the mainland. His name is Matthew. He's been riding for Chowdeck on the mainland for a while now. And he agreed to let me spend a day in his world, the orders, the waiting, the rides, the money, and everything in between that never makes it into the app. I thought I understood what this job was. I didn't. This is The Other Side — a series where I enter the lives of people around us whose work we depend on every day but never actually see.