Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Prelude To Crossing Over

Good week everyone. It’s been like ages since I hooked up with you guys here at our meeting place. I’m asking myself if there’s any gossip about myself I should shed and lay bare before you all but, I fear you may not be quite able to handle the truth. Okay, so I hopped on an okada two weeks ago when my car refused to start in the morning on my way to work. I had to hop on one and I don’t know which one scared me the more, the thought of falling off the bike, being hit by a car or being seen by the public or worse still the gossip press – oh shoot, I just gave them the ammo!- on an okada. My mother who always scolded me about my slouching habit as a child would certainly have beheaded me on that day. My chin was buried somewhere in my chest and my back was so hunched that I probably looked like I was carrying a baby on my back. I squinted my eyes to protect them from the smarting wind rushing at them and at the same time surreptitiously glanced at passers by in the frantic hope that none would recognise me but, that is a story for another day; now to the present.

I am having a hard time trying to write this post because one of my very good friends, Femi, is here on a visit for a few days and that, my friends, is a few days too many because the idiot is a pest. No sooner had he entered my house (flat) than he began to demand that I go to cook up something for him to eat. I told him I had a carton of instant noodles and eggs for him to test his skills on. The bloody nerve! A well meaning considerate friend would have asked his wife to cook two huge pots of good soup since he was going to stay at his bachelor friend’s for a few days. Oh well, I guess we’ll just sit here looking at each other, go out to work, eat whatever is available on set and at the end of the day come back and go out for a drink and goat meat peppersoup. I have my multi vitamins and fruit to keep me buoyed so little worries about scurvy. We are having fun catching up with the latest gist, not gossip like girls do, but manly talk; work, business, maybe dirty jokes and what have you. His wife just called to know how her husband is doing and asked to speak with me ‘to know how I’m doing’. We both know she just wants to know he is where he says he is and I do feel sort of honoured that she trusts me to keep her husband in a good place. I think before I finally get married I’ll have my bride sign a pre-nup allowing me a weekend’s getaway once in a while to catch my breath and smell freedom for just a few days before jumping back into the swirling pool. I am not being selfish, I’m just working hard to prevent the inevitable midlife crisis that plagues many a home when the man begins to feel he has lost out on the best life has to offer. But then that’s just me and my many theories.

We just opened another bottle and we’re starting get to get philosophical on matters ranging from how best to get rid of our corrupt leaders to who benefits the most from sex; men or women, and why we have to be the ones to spend a fortune just to get some. The rest are not topics for polite conversation so I’ll spare you those and pen off here before my hand loosens like my tongue already is. I’m very possessive of my ‘squeaky clean’ image so while I’m still on this side of the divide, have a great week everyone!

15 comments:

  1. Just read your post! Don`t tell me you left home on okada without any form of disguise, I mean, cap, sunshade etc.

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  2. Thanks for the update Kalu. Have fun with Femi and cook for the man biko.

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  3. It all sounds like trouble to me! Your driving skills, cooking, eating and drinking habits, and I do not even want to try to envision the conversations that you may be having with your friend. As far as you needing the weekend getaways.......ha ha she will be fleeing from you my friend! Hope you are doing well Kalu. Love Ya!!! Sara

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  4. How that lady' would have expected you to snitch on your friend beats me... Man's world.

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  5. ......"I think before I finally get married I’ll have my bride sign a pre-nup allowing me a weekend’s getaway once in a while to catch my breath and smell freedom for just a few days before jumping back into the swirling pool".......that's one for the books,..LMAO!!

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  6. Hi K, you fall my hand na!! I thought you were learning how to cook sometíme ago, lol. Why should it be Femi that will bring food to your house? Hehehe, I dey your side small. Where was your girl na?? I have so many questions to ask but I hope everything is okay.

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  7. Good that you posted. I was beginning to wonder! Have a great week.

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  8. Funny I thought of you this morning. About the writer's bloc..how about you start a topic and allow your readers to finish the plot? Something like...the harzards of being a politicians wife? I would write - Damn! They come so early to see my husband..and who the heck told them they could walk into my patio without removing their shoes! I aint a politician's wife.
    Kalu -Why the heck do you wanna marry anyway? Stay single. I am.
    love ya..Nancy

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  9. Be careful with okada abeg. Looking forward to another post to see if the passers by recognised you and what you did, lol.

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  10. Kalu, where have you been? We did missed you! I hope there will also be girls night out for the prenup. Nice to know what awaits the prospective bride, lol.

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  11. just when i was warming up to the gist... it ended. Stingy gossip!
    P:S, next time you are on a bike, demand a full-helmet from okada-man first... that will be camouflage enough. REALLY! Shuuuuu,I'm talking from experience.

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  12. just when i was warming up to the gist... it ended. Stingy gossip!
    P:S, next time you are on a bike, demand a full-helmet from okada-man first... that will be camouflage enough. REALLY! Shuuuuu,I'm talking from experience.

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  13. Kai!! wish i had seen u on okada, u for see how i go SOL (shout out loud) :p

    LOL@ ur prenup.......simply impossicant!!


    btw: is it my eyez or u dont reply comments?????

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  14. hey read this some weeks back, but didnt have the time to reply...............uhm so here is my feedback.
    easee up on kalu kalu :) tryyyyyyy to, you obviously take your work seriously, i actually watched tinsel for the first time some days before this post and i was quite impressed by masters...........maybe am missing something?
    i guess its the blues............it has its season and it will soon pass. hmm?
    ps........luv the quote!lmao (Haven’t you heard that saying a boy who is sent by his father to burgle a house always kicks the front door down?”)

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