I've often written about how hard it is for me to get angry, not minding what a person does to me; sometimes I feel it's because I often don't realize the gravity of the offense until later, or other times when I can't just find the strength to get angry or act in anger. Today I will be talking about a time when I was cheated and how I surprisingly did nothing about it. So with no further ado let me jump right into it.
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It was during my IT period when I just started working with a tech firm that was into operation of digital circuitry, my boss had some fairly used laptops for sale, and during that period I was rubbed off my two Lenovo laptops and needed a laptop urgently because I wanted to learn HTML programming language. I had worked in a similar firm where I learned the basics, and I wanted to learn more about it. My dad told me to inquire about the cost of a fairly used laptop which I did from my boss, and he said he will give me for the price of 30,000 naira.
I was really happy I was going to get a new laptop because of how much I wanted to learn programming, plus I trusted my boss so much that I didn't bother checking out the laptop he was selling to me. After paying and all, I discovered the laptop was worse than a Fairly used system. It was already bad and lacked a lot of maintenance. I was in school when I noticed it, and though disappointed, I didn't do anything about it. My parents were very disappointed that my dad wanted me to send the laptop back home so he will return it, give my boss a piece of his mind, and get back his money. But I told him it wasn't that bad (Which was a lie) just to calm down the whole tension.
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I struggled with that laptop for about four months before it finally went bad beyond repair which got me thinking why I didn't let my dad do what was in his mind. I took it as good fate and concluded that I had been cheated out of my own stupidity. I didn't blame him much because he never asked for the trust I had given to him. I could only blame myself and move on. I also did not ask for another laptop when it finally went beyond repair seeing what had already happened.
Another time I was cheated was when a friend of mine convinced me into the using 5k to make 50k in 5 minutes. I still didn't blame him, I was the fool for being young and greedy enough to be taken advantage of by an upcoming scammer. When my friend told me about it and gave me the number to call and do the transfer, I never knew he had it all planned, I only realized I had been cheated after I sent the money through and he stopped picking up my calls.
I didn't see him again to date, but the painful part of it all was that it was part of my school fees, and he convinced me that I will get the money back and more after a few minutes. Long story short it's been almost five years and I haven't gotten back my money 馃槀. I tried looking for him only to be told it was what he had been doing to people since he came to school. I almost went nuts looking for a way to get back my school fees; thankfully I did through some linear jobs and favours from people. Since then I ran far away from anything money doubling.
