I was seated on the floor in the living room playing by myself and with myself one cool evening when my mother got back from work.
Almost as I had greeted her and she settled in on a sofa she called me, "Supernova, come! Go and buy me Dr. Agnes dental teeth powder from down the road. I was pissed. Was it not the same route she took back home?
I took the money and dashed out. As I got outside my compound, I saw a group of my friends playing. They called me and said, "Oboy come make we play. The game too sweet." I could not resist so I resolved to play with them for a short while. Before I realized myself, almost an hour had gone by.
I ran immediately to the place she instructed but they had closed. I reckoned that there was some place close-by that sold that exact same thing so I went to the shop. I bought the stuff and ran home.
My mother was mad at me for staying so long. When she asked why I took long, I told her the woman selling delayed me. I handed her the stuff and made to leave, she called me back and said, "Supernova, is this what I asked you to buy? Before I could say yes, I felt slaps hitting my face back-to-back and in quick successions.
It was after the sparks had cleared off my eyes that I realized that what I bought was Dr. Igodo Goko cleanser instead of Dr. Agnes Nwama teeth powder.
I was speechless. It took God’s grace for me not to say that it was the "Dr." that confused me.
In a flash, I took the cleanser, ran off to the shop I got it from. Luckily, the shop owner had not closed. When I told her that I bought the wrong stuff, she said there was nothing she could do. I think she had not sold anything that day that’s why she did not answer me.
Unluckily too, she does not sell what I wanted so I could not ask her to even swap it for me. I pled and pled but the woman did not even listen tomy plea. I went back home dejected and shaking...person no de carry my mama play
When I got back home and told my mother what happened, she looked at me with that knowing grin and said, "since this one is what you want, you will be taking it so it doesn’t go to waste." I tell you, I drank that bitter nonsense and two weeks after I could still taste the bitterness. I’m sure that it cleansed all of the dirt in my stomach from that date until 10 years later.
And, with how I drank it, I promiseyou I can tell all of the ingredients it is made with. Dr. Igodo suppose make me brand ambassador
*Sigh..
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