Our salt and sugar bowls are identical. I aggressively emptied generous amounts of what I thought was salt into the pot and mixed everything.
Two minutes later, I noticed the actual salt bowl sitting on the fridge. I had just seasoned our only survival meal with pure Dangote sugar.
My chest immediately tightened. Four sleep-deprived, angry medical students were in the parlor holding spoons like weapons. If I confessed, they would literally harvest my organs right there.
I accepted my fate and served the food, dropped the pot in the center of the room, and stood near the door so I could run.
They attacked the food like wolves. I closed my eyes as I waited for the screams. I was waiting for someone to spit out the sweet Jollof and Beans and throw a heavy chair at me.
Five minutes passed and there was dead silence.
Chuka scraped his plate, looked up with red eyes and said, "Omo. You are a wicked chef. The seasoning is too perfect."
I was paralyzed. I walked back to the kitchen, dipped my finger into the 'sugar' bowl I used, and tasted it.
It was salt.
I opened the second bowl. Also salt.
I went back to the parlor sweating and asked Chuka why we had two identical bowls of salt in the kitchen.
He did not even look up from his plate. He just swallowed and said, "Those ants were always entering the sugar. So I filled both bowls with salt to confuse them."
Especially women. We can wake up one day & all our rights will be taken away on a whim but never for men. The Afghan women went to bed one night & woke up the next day as slaves in their own homes & it haunts me everyday.
*rushes a first timer into the labour ward
Her: *screaming... "I can feel the head of the baby almost out"
Me: "Get the delivery pack"... "we are having a baby"
*does a vaginal examination... cervix= 1cm, head very high
Her: "Can I push?...
Me: "No, pls, you are just 1cm... you have some time, can I give you pain relief?"... "Can I call your husband in?"
Her: "which foolish husband?, he's the cause of all this pain... you and him, I don't even know the difference..."
Me: 👀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀