was coming back from evening walk yesterday when I saw something that made me stop.
A skunk. Standing on two legs. Holding a small pistol.
Yes, you read that right. A skunk with a gun.
At first I thought my eyes were doing me. I cleaned my eyes, looked again. The skunk was still there, behind the dustbin near our compound, looking left and right like a thief. The gun was small, almost like toy gun, but the way he held it was very serious.
I whispered "Jesus" and wanted to run, but my leg refused to move. What if the skunk shoots? What if it sprays? Skunk spray alone is already a weapon, now add gun? Double wahala.
The skunk looked at me. I looked at the skunk. We stared for like 10 seconds. Then he lifted the gun and pointed at me.
My heart cut.
I raised my two hands up and said "Oga skunk, easy o, I no be thief, I just dey pass."
Then the skunk... laughed. Or made a sound like laugh. He put the gun down and I saw it was not a real gun. It was a water gun. Small children water gun, blue and yellow.
I started laughing too. This skunk stole a child's water gun from somewhere and was playing gangster behind dustbin. Probably protecting his territory from cats.
I moved closer small, and he ran away, carrying his water gun like a soldier going to war. Tail up, chest out.
I stood there laughing alone on the road. People passing were looking at me like I don mad.
But that moment made my day. Sometimes life is just funny like that. You expect danger, but you meet comedy. You think it's armed robbery, but it's just a skunk with a water gun feeling like boss.
I wish I recorded it. No one will believe this story without video. But I swear, that skunk has a gun. A water gun.
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