I’ve been described as many
things to many people and I’m going to cite some of the instances and hope that
you can relate too. I once attended a boot camp on a day I had cold so I had to
sneeze all the way through it. Months later, I came across the boot camp
organizer and one of the attendees at a program so I went to say hi and I had
to introduce myself. On remembering, he said ‘oh, you were the one that was
sick, do you remember her?’ he said, turning to the other lady, the attendee,
and she responded ‘oh, the Aanu that was sick that day’ so I automatically
became ‘the Aanu that was sick’ so whenever they want to make refer to me, no
other description will fit other than ‘the Aanu that was sick’.
If you know me personally, you’d
know that I have a set of teeth that distinguishes me from the rest of the
world so I wasn’t surprised when one day, a colleague walked up to me saying he
say my picture and couldn’t believe it was me because I looked amazingly good
(thanks to Glam Jasmine). He went ahead to say that he was surprised so he had
to ask his friend that ‘isn’t that the girl with the teeth?’ he apologized for
the description but I told him I didn’t take offense because I remember people
with their unique qualities too so that was how I became ‘the girl with the
teeth’.
The most recent happened last
week. I had been to this job interview where I got to interact with my
co-applicants. I decided for some reasons best known to me not to go through
the process anymore if I passed that day’s interview that is. So I passed but I
missed the final part of it as planned. I had the cause to call one of the
applicants weeks later which was last week and had to describe myself and when
she remembered me, she went ‘Oh, the Aanu that missed the final interview’ to
which I laughed and replied ‘yes, that one’.
So maybe I’ll be ‘the girl with
the rough hair’ or ‘the girl that ordered amala on our first day at work’ but
it’ll be okay, you don’t have to be sorry about it. This is because I’m one of
those people who remember people by the circumstances surrounding our meeting
so if I meet a Tunde through a Bola, I’d have to remember Tunde as Bola’s Tunde
otherwise I won’t remember at all or Tunde Bike if I met him on a bike, etc.
I’m sure some of you have people’s names saved with more ridiculous names, you
need to see my phonebook, lol. So if you find out your name is saved as ‘Kunle
mouth odor’, ‘Tayo bow leg’ etc, don’t take offense, those are just your unique
qualities. *shines teeth*
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