IS THAT RIGHT?

onyinye-chi

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I love cooking my own food although I do buy food from restaurants outside, it's not something I do every day, sometimes once in a blue moon. On this day I decided to go to the market to buy food stuffs so I could cook, I wanted egusi soup day. The kind of person I am, I don't buy food condiments but by bit, I feel it's better and safer than buying it but by bit, so if you see me going to the market on a regular day, except days I need to restock the house, it's just to buy proteins and the main ingredient for my food, soup especially (condiments like melon, okro, etc).

I bought my meat and fish, decided to restock my condiments and as usual decided to find my way around the market to get what I want. I just moved here so I don't have any close vendor (customer) that I could just walk in and get all I want. So I just walk around get what I want. I finished buying from this Lady and she gave me my change and I left on my way, I noticed she gave me excess change and I returned it to her.
Me: madam you gave me extra change .
Food seller: is that so?
Me: yes ma.
She started singing praises, thank you my child you're a good child, God bless you and all. Then she turned to her neighbor. "You see this child is a good child, if it were to be other children they wouldn't return it"
In my mind I was like "is that right?" With a semi bombastic eye. From where to where did this lady see me as a child, madam you're talking to a grown as woman and the lady in question was not too advanced maybe in her early forties or even late thirties(I said all these in my mind). I just didn't say anything, I allowed her say everything to her fill, I just left her shop.