Hehehehe, enyewe hakuna kusema umekaa town umekuwa mwerevu, leo nimegongwa, uzuri it wasn’t too much, sasa tu najichekelea.[SIZE=16px]
So our building has a small basement and the parking space huko ni ndogo so management sells it at a premium and you pay monthly. Sasa mimi mkulima mdogo that doesn’t make lots of sense to me, coz. I don’t normally drive to work daily as I share the car na PM.[/SIZE]
Since Nairobi kila mtu ni mjanja, work around huwa parking kwa compound ya the next building where its safer and cheaper than parking hapo inje kwa kanjo. Just talk to the watchman and of course unamwachia za chai.
Leo asubuhi kama kawaida yangu, ingia pale, salimia the watchman, unajifanya unaingia that building lakini una exit using the rear gate and head to the office. Nikifungua our office, a smartly dressed chap approached me, introduced himself as the caretaker of the next building, asked me in a matter of factly way if I was the owner of a car with this no. plate. Told me that he followed me to see where exactly I work. Threats kidogo, ati tenants pale are complaining hakuna space ya ku park gari, he can have it clamped… At this point he had opened the ka clipboard he had, ndani nikaona paper iko na letter head ya the other building. On it a hand written list of number plates, some of them crossed out, zingine ziko na business names who are tenants in that building written next to them.
Of course he mentioned he knows the arrangement I have with the watchman, mentioned he can have them disciplined bla bla bla
Then finally akasema the arrangement should be between me and him. I ended up parting with 9soc, all I had in my pocket.
Sasa jioni when I was leaving I asked the watchman what it will be like going forward juu ya huyo caretaker. Nili mention caretaker hivi jamaa akacheka kwanza, he then told me hio asubuhi huyo jamaa amegonga watu sita using the same trick na yeye hata hajui how the nigger looks. Hivyo ndivyo leo nimefunzwa kukaa town.
My friends apartment recently tenants got swindled, since the landlord rarely visits and the caretaker is a drunkard, A guy came and put stickers stating that ‘This months rent should be paid to my mpesa number 07****’ you can imagine what happened next, half the tenants send their tent there instead of the usual bank account.
There is a kid who approached me one time eti anasikia njaa, he was even crying. Nikamwambia tuingie hoteli nibuy food, kama bado naongea na waiter kwa counter, kijana alikimbia mbio na akapotea. Waiter akanishow eti ni kama yeye hutumwa na parents kuhustle doo from strangers after lamenting how he is hungry na wanaambiwa wasikubali kununuliwa chakula.
My landlord who is an old lawyer has an office on the property. Normally he has a driver with him whenever he is around. Sasa kuna time he disapeared, then the “driver” came and told guys this month rent mlipe na mpesa to this no. Mimi nilikataa, bado nili deposit to the normal a/c. Later ndio alikuja akasema he had been sick, na kumbe that driver is his son. Apparently no one could access money in his a/c and they needed money and thats why they had asked guys to pay by mpesa. Na caretaker pia kalewa mbaya
One approached me hivyo hapo agha khan walk tukitoka java na jaber na akakwamilia eti anko, sema kukataa, ile look jaber aliniangalia nayo, she was like aki woiyee mpatie tu. Nilimpatia 20 bob lakini nilikuwa najua ni wa kutumwa