A Silly Situation
Just this morning, I was unable to eat because I woke up late. My wife had traveled to see her elder sister in a town not too far from ours. I aimed to prepare white rice for my children in the morning before going to work as there was stew at home, but my kids disputed. They all said in unison that they wanted beans. I could not argue with them and instead danced to their tune.
I woke up when it was 2 am just to ease myself but found myself on Hive. What else could I have done other than to go online just to make a post? This was how I spent about one hour and thirty mins before going to bed. I got to bed and slept just like a wounded lion. I could not remember waking up as early as before to prepare food for my kids.
I took four sachets of noodles and prepared them. They were very unhappy but had no choice. I apologized and told them we are going to eat beans at night. Hearing this made them excited.
Sometimes it is better to eat from home before going to work or better still, take food to work.
Due to the rush of being late, I could not eat and also forgot to take the money with me. So, when I got to work, I was so hungry, and fortunately, my colleague was having a naming ceremony as early as 8 am. What a coincidence!! I was so excited to hear this good news. My boss called me to go with him. Nigerians should know what I meant by naming ceremony. Food is always very plentiful, especially rice.
We got to the venue and met a lot of people, even my colleagues were present. My expectation was the food. My stomach was singing a song of the aroma of the rice I was perceiving. I must not miss this party rice. After some minutes, they brought a basin filled with packages. I observed critically and discovered that it was a takeaway disposable plate filled with rice as well as table water and a coca-cola drink. Wow .. this is awesome, I said silently to myself. I was salivating hoping to even quench the thirst of hunger in me.
After a few minutes, my package was handed over to me. With the look of things, the contents seem so small or should I call it infinitesimal? I swallowed my saliva waiting to eat the little rice on the takeaway plate, but I must get to work before eating it. I later received a call from my wife explaining something to me. I left the rice on my seat and walked towards the door trying to get done with the call before seeing everyone leaving the arena. I immediately aborted the call and walked towards my seat but to my greatest surprise, I met an empty seat. 'My package has gone to where I did not know'. I don't know how the package managed to borrow legs and escape from the seat into someone's hands.
Who should I tell this to? The hunger was so intense after the scene. I was feeling ashamed of telling those serving the food to give me extra. I called my boss and he understood what I was saying. Before I could turn back, I saw a different package on my seat. I looked around and discovered that no one would have been the owner of this package and even though, I wouldn't wait for someone to grab it and so I grabbed it with immediate effect.
This was how I managed to win my stomach at that point not knowing that the deed had not yet been done.
I got to work and sent one of my students to take the food to my table. After a while, I went to my office and met an empty table. I was mad and just because of my hunger, I could not recognize the student I sent to drop the package on my table. I began to ask my colleagues if someone mistakenly brought the package to their table, but to my greatest surprise, they all had the same answer. I was so mad and my hunger increased. Where I sat, a student came in and was searching for her script. I was telling my colleagues that I wish I recognized the student I sent to drop the package on my table, it would have been better. This was when my student raised her head and said "master, I was the one you sent to drop the package on your table". After hearing this, I was so happy and without wasting time, I asked her to relocate the package on my table which she did.
I wish you can see the way i was squandering thhe food.
Hmmm… you can imagine the kind of suffering I must have passed through before seeing the package. Oh… I was saved from the hell of hunger.
My salivating now comes to an end…. This was a sad experience….