A real time to laugh is after a day work, when you need to calm your nerves after a long day. Read these short funny tales and calm your nerves. This first one is about how I sorted out a stubborn wall gecko 馃ぃ馃槀馃ぃ. Come a long with me.
Recently, I found out I have come to hate geckos. The hatred is borne out of the transferred information that my mother trained us.
Geckos around our home dare not come closer to our apartmentt knowing what fate awaits them if they do.
At some point, I chased one gecko that nearly crushed my skull into the metal door. I however succeeded in cutting the tail of this particular gecko but it escaped with the injury.
After several weeks, there were no indications that any spider was around. One night, our neighbour who had borrowed our match box hadn't returned it, so I went to pick it up. Then the same gecko with its tail gone spotted me as my eyes turned to the wall in our neighbour's kitchen and took to its heels amidst other geckos hanging on the wall. 馃ぃ馃槀馃ぃ
Watching the spider man television series was every child's dream, including me. The heroine's nature got me into trouble. I was just trying to be spider man in the real world. I
No one ever told me that the spider man antics that we watch on television is only a written script.
This particular day, I went to a senior class in my primary school to get a pen from my cousin and met a junior student who was asked to pick the first on the floor. It pieces me that I confronted the seniors almost immediately.
The rest is history. I received the biggest beating in my primary school history. Then, I knew that the spider man displays are merely acted.
Take cover
That's what we were told to do at night whenever we hear dogs barking. What we forgot to ask was why should we Take Cover* for.
Anytime our dogs barks, we go into hiding. My younger brothers would head for the wardrobe while I go.under the bed. This had persisted for years without knowing why the heck we had to take cover.
This particular August, during the long vacation for students, my cousin from Port Harcourt came visiting. My siblings have informed him of the take cover syndrome.
Yet again, our dogs started barking again and we all ran to take cover but my cousin had taken my position and there was nowhere for me to hide. I just there akimbo.
I decided to take a look at what was happening when the dogs were back by peeping through the curtain. You can't believe what I saw.
Our older brother who brought the take cover* was outside devouring some mouth-watering pastries and throwing some at the dogs. So, they would bark as they jumped to catch it first.
Silently, I walked outside and sat with him and got my share too. My other siblings kept taking cover for a long time before my older brother got admission into the university.
I didn't make note of this until after first year in the university. The mischievous boys my hostel, as a means of getting what they desire started cooking all kinds of cock and bull stories.
This one got me for a while before I got to know that they were playing on people's intelligence.
One day, Tony and Charles who had always played god to other students on diets because they were studying food a and nutrition in school went round the hostels and asked people not to eat rice.
They said there was a contaminated rice been sold in the market. And that night only my bunk mate cooked rice. When he saw the boys were coming to take it away cunningly, he added so much salt that they won't be able to eat it. He added more than enough chilli pepper too.
We all knew that the duo had no food to eat and as such they would just cook up some story to put fear in our heart.
That night, as they took the first spoon of rice, they three up almost immediately and ran out of their room 馃ぃ馃ぃ馃槀馃ぃ.
Read the first episode here 馃憞馃徏
Funny Old School Fables 1
