everidayTori
Kettle calling pot black.
Since I won't be going out with my car, I decided to board a taxi instead of taking a bike that will add more mucus to my catarrh; but it wasn't easy trekking about 5 minutes to the main express...5 minutes is not too much though; but the exposure of my second layer head-skin to this hot sun is like daring the temperature of hell fire. The guy that got my hair cut less that 12 hours ago didn't apply 'eye of mercy' at all; he must be a brother to an "ex" (tongue outđ).
Trying to avoid being given an embarrassing look by korope drivers as the denomination I had on me was #1,000 note, I had to force myself to buy #100 airtime from a wholesale shop very close to the express. Then, I saw this woman that used to add 10naira to cardi onihundred naira (she sells #110 for us in the street) spiral-walked to the desk of the attendant...chai!đ Her secret don land my hand today; she will hear her surname when next she asks me to add #10 to my money since she decided to walk past me as if I were a statue.
Korope man (cab driver) with his trouble too, insisting he will collect #70 (Naira instead of normal #50, with joke and sarcasm I voiced out; " Baba me I don calcu my movement o" he neither responded nor asked me to alight. (customers are always right fahđ). Few metres away, we sighted his ministry member (a co- cab driver) driving a car loaded with drinks. I was gently smiling at his greed as the Baba decided to turn it to a topic of discussion, "he is not the owner of the car, if he is the owner he won't load the car with drinks like this". Though not in anyway interested in the topic, I nonetheless played along with a pretentious smile. Suddenly, he increased the speed of the car so as to meet up with the said greedy driver. He greeted him and said, "owò e ti bĂ ĂĄ; e shĂĄĂ lo fo mĂłtò k'esĂŹ lo sĂšn te bĂĄ ti ja tĂĄn" (You've hit a jackpot! Just remember to wash the car after offloading and thereafter, close for the day). I increased the tune of my smiles this time around as I asked like how much his friend will make from that trip? He answered, "the highest is #700, and may not be up to that". I smiled again, and muttered in my church-mind that "this man is nothing but a frying pan calling a kettle, black. Because, If he had the opportunity to be in the said greedy drivers' shoe, he would do the same jor..."
#everidayTori
Series 002
Written by Ayomide Abiona
Edited by Olawale Akinyede
nigerianthem is there to let you know....
Kettle calling pot black.
Since I won't be going out with my car, I decided to board a taxi instead of taking a bike that will add more mucus to my catarrh; but it wasn't easy trekking about 5 minutes to the main express...5 minutes is not too much though; but the exposure of my second layer head-skin to this hot sun is like daring the temperature of hell fire. The guy that got my hair cut less that 12 hours ago didn't apply 'eye of mercy' at all; he must be a brother to an "ex" (tongue outđ).
Trying to avoid being given an embarrassing look by korope drivers as the denomination I had on me was #1,000 note, I had to force myself to buy #100 airtime from a wholesale shop very close to the express. Then, I saw this woman that used to add 10naira to cardi onihundred naira (she sells #110 for us in the street) spiral-walked to the desk of the attendant...chai!đ Her secret don land my hand today; she will hear her surname when next she asks me to add #10 to my money since she decided to walk past me as if I were a statue.
Korope man (cab driver) with his trouble too, insisting he will collect #70 (Naira instead of normal #50, with joke and sarcasm I voiced out; " Baba me I don calcu my movement o" he neither responded nor asked me to alight. (customers are always right fahđ). Few metres away, we sighted his ministry member (a co- cab driver) driving a car loaded with drinks. I was gently smiling at his greed as the Baba decided to turn it to a topic of discussion, "he is not the owner of the car, if he is the owner he won't load the car with drinks like this". Though not in anyway interested in the topic, I nonetheless played along with a pretentious smile. Suddenly, he increased the speed of the car so as to meet up with the said greedy driver. He greeted him and said, "owò e ti bĂ ĂĄ; e shĂĄĂ lo fo mĂłtò k'esĂŹ lo sĂšn te bĂĄ ti ja tĂĄn" (You've hit a jackpot! Just remember to wash the car after offloading and thereafter, close for the day). I increased the tune of my smiles this time around as I asked like how much his friend will make from that trip? He answered, "the highest is #700, and may not be up to that". I smiled again, and muttered in my church-mind that "this man is nothing but a frying pan calling a kettle, black. Because, If he had the opportunity to be in the said greedy drivers' shoe, he would do the same jor..."
#everidayTori
Series 002
Written by Ayomide Abiona
Edited by Olawale Akinyede
nigerianthem is there to let you know....
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