Over the years, even right from when I was a kid, people say I got effeminate looks?! I don’t know how they could come to such a conclusion because I myself never found it funny being likened to a girl. I was a man, or wasn’t I? I knew all it took to be a man by the basic definition was to have an EGGPLANT in between but in these times and age that we live in I guess it’s safe to say that all those ideas of manliness and masculinity can be debated to its origins. Why am I telling you guys all these?
Well maybe because it has a lot to do with my continuing tale as to how that man from the previous chapter decided to give me a lift down to my destination.
Anyway, back to the story before I lose y’all in my nonsensical diatribe. And so I didn’t even waste no time in thinking too deep about my options because the rains didn’t offer me much of a choice.
That was how I obliged OGA BOSS, opened up the front passenger seat and got into it with my GHANA MUST GO bag. Gosh, I am sure if you could picture me then; I must have been looking like some Eze goes to school character, only this time I was more flamboyant. Hahahahaha.
OGA BOSS introduced himself to me while taking a cursory look at me with a veiled smile which made me feel like a prey in the den of a lion. I really couldn’t understand why I felt that way, maybe it was because I knew I had openly disregarded one of the rules of life my parents gave to me then, which was to never talk to a stranger! Yet here I was, not only talking to a stranger but GOING ALONG with a stranger.
While we were on our way, driving through the old Ahmadu bello way Off Terminus, OGA BOSS wound up the windows and told me not to be scared. Apparently he saw the questioning look I gave him which was asking “OGA WHICH LEVELS NA?”. All through the first 5 minutes of the trip, I kept quiet only passively staring out though the window at the beautiful scenery of the City of Jos.
The city had this feeling of nostalgia to it, coupled with the rain that was falling that moment, it all made me feel at peace with myself and my troubles within, which made me tell myself that I might actually like it here after all.
But all that thought was abruptly cut to pieces when from nowhere I felt a hand from behind cover my mouth! Oh my goodness what was happening? I asked myself. Before I could turn my head to look at OGA BOSS or whoever it was that was trying to suffocate me, all I heard was OGA BOSS telling me “Now keep shut you this boy! If you struggle again na your eye we go commot!!” Your thinking right now was as same as mine; Eyes wey I dey manage na imm dem wan come commot one of them?! No way.
I had to keep shut for the remainder of the journey to hell or wherever it was they were taking me to but I guess I probably would prefer hell then and there than where it was they were taking me to. And that my friends is something I am not willing to let out of the bag just yet, so keep your fingers crossed till sometime later within this barrage of write ups I call my memoirs from way back. ADIEU. ** Did I just hear some of you hiss? Aww, I’m sorry but don’t be mad at me because I have got more interesting stuffs to tell you instead.
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