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Small Madam

“Hmmmm congrats oh, hope you guys have chosen date?” I looked puzzled till she pointed at my finger, ‘’oh, the ring, mchew, it’s a fancy ring oh” I laughed innocently. ‘’that’s how they’ll be saying until we see wedding pictures’’. Sigh. I had just ordered a set of rings from aliexpress so I wore a particular one which I found really cute and because my ring finger was the one it fit, I wore it on it. I wasn’t going to take my ring off because someone wishes to eat my jellof rice real soon. I got stares from other colleagues who didn’t have the courage to ask and from customers who probably thought I was too young to be married as most of them mistook it for a wedding ring as I later realised that evening. I was on my way home passing through my normal route – bread seller > filling station > igbo/ibo guys selling chargers, earpiece etc > bikers etc. I planned to replace my earpiece that evening as the one I had was bad so I was haggling then the guy said ‘’madam, you