We have all been tricked by our parents in one way or the other when we were little, They either make you believe in something then you grow up to realize that it doesn’t exist, or when you want to go out with them, they ask you to go and wear your shoes, only for you to return and they are gone, this particular trick will make you lose trust at an early age but I think I became smarter after one encounter with my mom.
There’s this thing African parents always do. Whenever a visitor is leaving and they give you money, then your parents would always be like “Let me keep it for, whenever you need it I will give it back to you”. I fell for this once and I handed the money to my mom but when I needed it she said “All the food you have been eating in this house, whose money is that?” well that was how I didn’t get my money back. Once bitten twice shy so I stopped giving my parents my money to help me keep. I put them in my savings box.
Well, my little sister, wasn’t wise enough, she always fell for my dad’s tricks. We always had lots of aunties and uncles come around so whenever they leave we all get something.
My sister was always excited to give hers to my dad. He always told her that he was saving her money in the bank for her.
Most times she would go on vacation to my aunt’s or uncle’s place she’d return with lots of money and gifts. She still gave it to my dad with the thought that he was saving it in the bank, I always told her that it wasn’t true but she wouldn’t listen.
On one particular day, my dad asked her to dress up that he was going to take her to the bank to show her where he had been keeping her money. She was very happy. Well, he took her to the bank to see people’s money cause the bankers are always counting money. When she returned she couldn’t stop telling me how she saw her money and how she had a lot of money. She said she saw so many people counting her money.
I just looked at my dad and he was smiling, I couldn’t help but laugh, old man, was seriously playing a fast one on his princess. She kept saving her money with my dad but unfortunately, there was no money as he was only tricking her. Sometimes, he would be like “IB won’t you save your money with me” I would scream No, and say “I don’t want my money to develop wings and fly one day”.
One day my sister wanted to buy a tablet to play games, so she asked my dad to give her all her money only for my dad to say he used it to invest in her future as her future needed to be bright, my sister who was still small and didn’t understand what that statement meant told my dad she didn’t want her future to be bright as she’s fine with having a dark future, we all burst into laughter when we heard it and the worst part was that she was crying and saying she wants a dark future. That wasn’t all as through out that week she kept crying and saying “Daddy my money”
Well, my sister grew up and realized that it wasn’t her money she saw at the bank and my dad had played a quick one on her. So when my mom had my little brother, my sister made it her responsibility to advise him not to save money with daddy or mummy cause they would never give him back. They always come up with several excuses. African parents are something else, but we love them regardless.
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