Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Because I Said So!
Having a cold shower early in the wickedly cold morning is not funny.
Not funnier is finding out (after the wickedly cold shower) you left your towel in the other room because you first of all (*do not go down low) dropped it when you quickly threw on a shirt to answer the door for your over zealous trash collector and then later became so much in a hurry to make it a little earlier than late to work that you ran to the bathroom almost immediately and braved the ice cold water.
Running naked with water dripping down your back might look sexy, appealing and hot in the movies but in real life, it is *@#**ed! (pardon my french).
Then there is Daniel!
Daniel is a rambunctious 13 year old from Imo state, Nigeria.
He made me speechless for all of 20 seconds when he told me point blank that a woman's place is in the kitchen.
When I had my wits about me, I got up from my perch, pulled out a seat for him and invited him to parley with me.
Further discussions revealed his mother as the source for his convictions.
She told him that in the kitchen lies a woman's power, that if the husband were to take that from her, she would be powerless.
So basically, my 7 years in the university was a complete waste of time as my life ambition ought to be dreaming of the day when that special man would take me into his house to lord over his pots, pan and silverware.
Daniel can make a sandwich, does not like beans and wants to be a lawyer when he grows up.
Yesterday, when I got in late and was asked why, I said under my breath that it was because there was juju on the road.
Today, I stopped by said juju and took a picture of it
Tied around a stick are pieces of red cloth, snail shells and a very short broom.
I do not know if the snail is still in its shell or out with friends but examining a dangling snail on a lonely bush path did not seem like such a good idea at the time.
It appears that putting a nice friendly signpost with a "do not disturb" does not quite work for everyone.
The thought of Friday scares and excites me because I plan on doing something very (very) naughty.
It involves fluids, flashes and latex.
I am curious as to whether I'd do it or chicken out last minute.
What do you think?
Yeah since I mentioned it and cant now seem to get the song out of my head, here's Olamide!
He did his own version of azonto with the song "First of all" - freestyle. The track gets me every time. Heck get down low if you want to!!
- Oseyi
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Hamatan,
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Naija stories,
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Am interested in knowing what you have planned for friday. And kindly advice the young man to change his views.Ebose
ReplyDeleteFirst of all a woman's place has evolved to not only the kitchen but also the bedroom and the bank room. It is necessary that she is well "educated" as to meet these needs through sufficient "exposure" mostly at school or otherwise! Ofili
ReplyDelete@Ofili: she is educated! A civil servant and a mother of 3. Two of them male. If her 13 year old boy believes this, I wonder what her daughter believes! I tried to convince the young boy otherwise but finally, it is my word versus the word of his mother.
Deletehello darkness, my old friend...
ReplyDeleteInteresting!!!!! So what did you do on friday?
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