I was in high spirits, I had a place to call my own. Never mind that the only things I owned were a single stool, mattress on the floor, one pair of bed sheets, a stove without a stand (cooking ugali on that thing was a gamble), two sufurias, a jua kali pan, two plates, two cups, two spoons, a knife and two basins for dishes. A leso sufficed for a curtain, and I had two basins for laundry. The room was small but it seemed so large for lack of any furniture.
I woke up one fine sunday morning and after a weak breakfast got down to doing my laundry and cleaning my room. I went out and bought two ripe bananas to keep hunger at bay because I had a grand plan of making a nice meal for myself, it would be the first meal with any form of meat in that house. My hands and feet were ashen from the soapy water so I splashed some lotion as I did not plan to take a shower then. The plan was to get all that I needed to make my meal, come back and cook then I would take a shower and sit down to enjoy my food feeling fresh.
So I started the walk from Githurai 45 (the butcheries on this side did not have what I wanted) to go to the other side of Githurai 44. There was a butchery there past where Equity Bank stands that sold minced meat. I don’t know if it still exists. The plan was to have minced meat and peas with rice. I would have preferred the minced meat with chapos, but since I did not have a decent pan for chapos, rice would do. Me that one (mimi huyo) passed by market and bought peas, tomatoes and onions. Just before I crossed the road to 44, I saw this pata potea guys “hii inakula, hii inapoteza nahii inapoteza”. I watched the guy shuffle the cards and I could tell which one was to win. Everytime guys placed money on the cards I could tell which one was to win, and I was correct all the time! Or so I thought. Why were people winning free cash and I wasn’t? I could double or triple my cash………
What happened happened. I went back home sun burnt, dusty, thirsty and without any minced meat. Ilibidi nikule rice na minji plain. I have never attempted to gamble again!
Kuna nugu zilikuwa zinachezesha that game in the market nearby our high school.
Everyday son stories would come to us esp how old men n ladies were conned cash meant for hospital (there was one nearby).
Sasa wakifanya mistake ya kucon cucu ya bigwig mmoja was shule cash meant for sch fees,and he called on jeshi to act on the suckers.lemmi juz say what happened did not go viral juu tu haikuwa enzi za chocha media, otherwise am pretty sure those young chic’s who used to dilly dally there asking customers ‘Auntie karibu bahati yako’ wengi walienda nyumbani bila tops.Several of their racket guyz reported broken limbs too.
Manze kama yangu ilikua tu ya kanyama na vile nilienda home kama nimejam. Can’t imagine pesa ya school fees ama ya hosi. But it was a good lesson for me, I have never forgotten.
True that.I was in F1.
Ur class did that.
Wueh! Huyo jamaa Karateka alifanya niQuit karate club after nimeona vile amenyanyua msee teke huko Shaolin temple, the guy (a form one) had been told Akio a roundkick ainame!! Nongwe ikazubaa, haikuBend.
Twaff! Am sure dental formula ilitingika!
I re-joined back wayy…later tukiwa Form2 na akina Abu n Mwema.
Hiyo class yenu bana had some big guyz hadi Mimi kwanza I wasn’t harrased mostly CZ I was so minute, kadogo sana.
Was in Kenya 2 House.
Huko Kevo n Kioni tuliwaoshea mashati n plates kweli kweli.But I really enjoyed being their mono CZ fuckers from other dorms couldn mess with us.Main reason was I had access to their lockers as they hid their contraband in mine.I was also the courier. Tukienda outings nanunua sigara na pombe nabeba naingiza. (Which principal would suspect a naive, innocent, small form 1 to keep cigarettes and bangi na fombe kwa locker yake?).
So my locker was used as a ‘Safe’. Lockers zao nazo I had spare keys for each, na unajua walikuwa ‘birioneas’ so I had access to sugar, blueband,milkpowder n spices for a whole one year. Kwanza ya that guy Kaminchia, sijui son of former KCB chairman, wueh! Hiyo ilikuwa supermarket.
Nilikuwa Kenya 1.kioni alienda States. Kaminchia is a silent millionaire Nairobi.mimi ni fundi wa saa huku moyale.
Hiyo mwaka ukiwa mono nilikuwa gated na Guinness juu ya kushindwa kufikisha D+ kwa kcse mock exam