Reminiscence

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Here in the western part of Africa, there's this belief that when someone is down with malaria, the person is bound to have some terrible nightmares and in as much as this is a myth, I'm starting to believe it.

The past few days has been terrible for me. The malaria came without its usual warning signal and the whole of my body system had gone crashing down. And as if that wasn't enough, the myth decided to manifest itself in a different way. There was no nightmares, only embarrassing memories of things I would love to forget.

One of the most embarrassing of them all that has refused to leave my head happened some few years back. I and two of my friends were walking back home from school when I saw this two girls in front of me. I didn't know who they were because they both don't go to our school but somehow, I had asked my guys place a wager that I was going to touch one of their buttocks.

I didn't know why I said that but there was this sudden confidence in me that felt like I could do that and go scot-free. I could remember both of my friends looking at me like I had gone mad but apparently they were much more interested in what was about to happen than what was going on in my head because they wasted no time in placing the bet.

"I will be going home 500 naira richer if I completed this little task" I said to myself as I increased my pace while my friends decreased theirs.

As I got closer to the girls, the realization of what I was about to do started coming to me but then it was too late to back out now, the wager has been set. So I lifted up my hand and was about descending it on my target when one of the girls turned back, I froze.

“What were you about to do?” she asked but I stood there, with my hand in the air and said nothing. Then the rain of insults fell on me. The girls made sure they used every word of insult they knew on me as I shamelessly walked home.

I became the topic of discussion the next day in class. My two friends gave every detail of what happened the previous day and I never felt so embarrassed before in my life.
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Quite interesting. I can imagine how embarrassing it must have been but I'm happy you were not able to go through with it 😂😂
I hope you're getting better though.

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I can't even imagine what would have happened if I had gone through with it.. I just didn't know what gave me the morale to even want to attempt something as crazy as that in the first place.

I hope you're getting better though.

Yeah, I'm getting better. Thanks for your concern.

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I am very happy you couldn't accomplish your mission. It would have ended badly. Get well soon

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Glad to hear that ❤️

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