The thunder storm

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Hello everyone. I hope you are all cathing cruz as my fellow bloggers keep putting a smile on our faces with their comic contents 😀. It's my pleasure to tell you about one of my childish act. Please laugh with me as we embark on the journey

Each time I see kids acting funny, I remember some of the things I do when I was young. I was the only son of my parents many years ago before thry had our last born (twins). I think I was about 10 years when I did what I'm about to tell you. Actually, what I did wasn't the main issue. What happened next was the big deal. Each time my dad or mum quarrel with me, I would reject food. I didn't know when that attitude started but I grew to know it's what I do all the time. As the only son, I was pampered

This kind of treatment is synonymous with many families. When they have one gender among their children, they show that extra love and care

Mine wasn't an exception. So each time I'm angry and refused to eat, they would beg me several times before eating

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So, one day, I misbehaved as usual and I was scoded by my mum which made me angry and decided not to eat her food

And there's one thing I love doing. I like staying beside her when she's cooking so I could learn. I stayed with her through the evening until she finished cooking. She even sent me on errands

Then it was time to eat. While she was dishing the food for us, I shouted from the corner of the sitting room so she could hear my voice

"Don't dish my food o. I'm not eating your food this night"

My three sisters carried their food and started eating. I expected her to call and pamper me to eat but this woman didn't look at my side

I was bastardly hungry sitting at the corner and was salivating as my sisters swallow their semovita with edikaikong soup morsel after morsel. I couldn't take my eyes off their food

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Then my immediate younger sister that has bad mouth said in my dad's language.

Mà fi oju ę gbangba gbe ounję mi ló o. Nse loun dató lęnu bi tolotolo yęn. Tooba ló gbe ounję ę, ebi a paę, oju ę a pon

Don't take my food away with that your big eyes. You are there salivating like a turkey. If you refuse to eat, hunger would kill you, your eyes will turn to red

I was angry

I couldn't beat her because my mum was there. They laughed at what she said

Then my dad arrived with my grandmother. It's been long she visited us and we were all happy to see her. She went to the room after performing ablution to observe Mogrib and Ishai prayer she missed during the journey. Then it was time for dad and mum to eat. I knew she might have told him that I refused to eat so I was expecting him to ask questions. But husband and wife ate without giving a damn about their only son looking from an angle like a dull. They've planned against me I thought. This is conspiracy. I became more angry and hungry

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My grandmother wasn't aware of what was happening until we are about to sleep as the rain drops heavily singing a lulaby on our zinc. She pampered me and took me to the kitchen to dish food for me

She already dished my semovita but as she was dishing the soup in a plate, a mighty thunder stroke. My grandmother dropped the plate of soup out of fear and on my way running out of the kitchen, my hand hit the pot soup. Only the semovita was left without injury. The plate broke, the little soup wasted, and we both ran out and collided at the door

My mum looking at us from the sitting room could not help but laughed at us in jest. My grandmother went to sit panting from the fear from the sudden thunder storm. Now, I was very hungry. No soup to eat. What will I do? My mum just gave me a piece of advice. She said

Carry your semo, take a seat and eat from the floor

They both left me in the sitting room and went to sleep and I was left alone looking at the semo and the pilt soup on the floor. Hunger could not allow me to sleep so I picked the periwinkles and the meat on the floor and used them to swallow some morsel of semo. The last thing I would ever do from then was refuse food for any reason

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