We can afford to cut our hair over here as my team can boast of five consecutive league wins, I wish I can say the same about some people’s team😂😂😂😂
13 years without a League trophy, played an entire season without winning five games in a row 😂😂😂. It can never be my Arsenal!!!!!!!!.
My landlord increased my rent by ₦250,000 and told me I had 30 days to pay or leave.
I was angry, but there was nothing I could do.
For three weeks I searched for another apartment. Nothing💔
Either the rent was higher or the place looked like it would collapse during heavy rain.
One afternoon I was packing some old boxes when I heard a knock.
It was the old woman who sold vegetables at the junction near my house.
We'd barely exchanged more than greetings for three years.
She looked at the boxes and asked,
"You're moving?"
I told her about the rent increase.
She was quiet for a moment and then left.
I thought that was the end of it.
The next morning, she came back.
She didn’t come alone. With her were six other traders from the junction.
One brought a plastic chair. One brought a small table. One brought a notebook.
I was confused.
The old woman opened the notebook and said,
“Read the names”
I looked down.
There were over fifty names.
People I knew.
The vulcanizer. The woman who sold akara. The pharmacy owner. The security man from the next street.
Beside every name was an amount.
₦2,000. ₦5,000. ₦10,000.
I asked what it was.
The old woman looked offended.
“As if we're going to let you leave”
Turns out they had been contributing money for two weeks.
Apparently everyone at the junction already knew I was struggling before I did.
The total was enough to cover almost half the rent increase.
I couldn't speak.
Then she said something I'll never forget.
“Every morning for three years you greeted people like they mattered”
She tapped the notebook.
“This is the receipt”
I ended up finding a cheaper apartment and returned every naira they contributed.
Most refused to collect it.
The old woman certainly didn't.
She said,
“We weren't investing in a house”
“We were investing in a neighbor”
To this day, I've never passed that junction the same way again.
And I learnt a great lesson… you don't realize people have noticed your kindness until the day they decide to return it😘
@UnkleAyo But these women who won't let you bathe your daughter because they don't trust you will turn around and say that if a man asks for a DNA test, it means he doesn't trust her, and she'll leave him. Men need to learn ruthlessness from women.
@iamklausenburg@Eromski4 The lies about their body count irritate me the most. That was how one was telling me any sex done outside her being in a relationship can't be counted.I almost off,like you only count based on the number of serious relationships you've had, not the number of times you hv fucked?
My son is 3. He has a best friend named Marcus from daycare. Marcus's dad and I nod at each other during pickup. That's our whole relationship.
Last Wednesday he texts me: "Marcus won't stop asking about Eli. Saturday work?"
I say sure.
He picks Eli up at 10. By 11 I'm on the couch. Not doing anything. Just. Sitting. I didn't know I missed sitting.
Noon I eat a full meal. Hot. At the table. No one grabbed anything off my plate.
2pm my wife asks what I want to do. I didn't have an answer. I forgot I got to have one.
Marcus's dad texts at 5: "They're good. Eating now."
Cool. Great. Perfect.
7:45 he calls. "Marcus is losing his mind about Eli leaving. Sleepover?"
I said yes so fast I scared myself.
Drove home. Stopped for gas I didn't need. Just stood outside in the parking lot for a minute.
Went inside. Told my wife.
She had already opened a bottle of wine.
We watched two full movies. Nobody woke us up at 6am. I laid in bed until 8:47 just because I could.
Marcus's dad drops Eli off Sunday. Eli walks in, looks at me once, and goes straight to his toys.
Didn't ask where I'd been. Didn't care.
Bro same.
If the bus was not given to him on higher purchase, then it's safe to say that he messed up BIG TIME. And no, it is not greed but plain stupidity with a touch of village people syndrome.
There is a man at our junction who sells akara with his wife.
Every morning and evening, the wife does the frying while he attends to customers. A lot of people used to call him lazy because they felt a man should be doing something "bigger" than helping his wife sell akara.
One day, a wealthy man in our area approached him.
He told him, "It's not proper for a man to be doing this kind of petty business with his wife. What are you passionate about? What would you like to do if you had the opportunity?"
The akara seller replied that he had always wanted to work in transportation and would be grateful if he could get a bus.
They're not getting the maths and it is why they're attacking the security guy.
So because she has been tipping him for running errands for her, she expects him to pay the extra 700 naira 🤦🏾♂️
Back to this post.
This post and the comment section, is an incontrovertible evidence that Nigerians are terrible people. Very evil mean spirited people. Because how are you justifying this nonsense?
A security man at your work place is your colleague. If you can treat your colleague like this because you earn higher, how are you treating the househelp you're paying with peanut and longsuffering?
Big club, the biggest brands in the World will always want to be Arsenal sponsors.
Yet, a small blue club in South London have been struggling to get a jersey sponsor for 4 years.
You can't buy class!