Please look at this issue Mr Kenyatta
… . I GET MAD EVERY TIME I GO TO A
SUPERMARKET AND I ’M GIVEN
SWEETS AS PART OF MY CHANGE IT
was on last Sunday and i felt thirsty
as it happened I was passing Ukwala
Supermarket next to Central arcade
Eldoret , I decided to go for bottled
water. My thirst was huge so I went
for the Quencher 1 .5 ltrs which goes
for 58 bob. The young lady cashier
hands me two twenty bob coins ( 40
shillings ) and two sweets as change
for the 100 bob I gave her . I tell her
“ NO, I don’t take sweets for change .”
She tells me , “I don’ t have coins, ”
and gets ready to call the next
person in the queue .
I demand my two shillings change ,
she stands her ground she has no
coins . “Then why do you put coins
in your prices if you don’t have coins
to give change ?” I’ m now almost
shouting . I don’t wish to cause a
scene over two bobs so I take the
sweets and walk away fuming … not
because of some useless two bobs
but because of the thievery that
goes on in supermarkets , especially
Ukwala Supermarkets, Naivas and
other small supermarkets, with the
cheap 10 cents sweets they give
away in place of shillings. I swear to
teach them a lesson – not tomorrow,
now!
I walk to the left -luggage counter
located just at the entrance /exit,
leave the water, and walk back into
the self -service store . I remember
just in time that I actually need
toothpaste . So I go and voila!
there ’ s a Colgate MaxFresh that is
going for 53 shillings . I pick that and
walk to the cashiers, making sure to
go to the same one who gave me
sweets . She punches the Colgate
into her cash register and I hand to
her 51 shillings and the two sweets.
She looks at me and asks “what ’s
this for?” referring to the two
sweets . “You gave me those,
remember me ? Since you guys seem
to have made sweets a currency , I
can as well pay with them !” the
most serious expression she could
muster , the girl who doesn’ t look so
young now, tells me: “ we don’t take
sweets from outside. ” The shop
manager who just happened to be
passing by heard the exchange and
stopped to find out what was
happening . “ This girl gave me
sweets as change a few minutes ago
in spite of my protests that I don’t
chew sweets .
I went back to the shop and took
this toothpaste and added the
sweets to the money that I have but
she will not take the sweets saying
ati they are from outside. If you can
give sweets as change , and therefore
a form of currency, why won’t you
accept them as such ?” The manager
just smiled, perhaps concluding that
I ’m either a nutcase or a smart-
aleck , said to the cashier “It ’s Ok ,
chukua ” ( it’ s Ok, take the sweets ),
gave me my toothpaste and I left
the shop. The people in the queue
almost cheered
Hehe, nice one.Those guys want to make sweets the new currency.furthermore ni zile sweets za sumni.Ripoffs.
hizo sweets ni tudogo they should give us eclairs ama choclate…hihi