Sometimes when idle or engaged I tend to switch my mind to auto-pilot mode. During these periods, my mind nostalgically drifts back to my days in highschool making me miss the damn life. Amongst the most memorable things are the freebies we used to achieve not because of pity or sheer luck but rather top class mischief and creativity. My most memorable events were free meals in the nearest town hotels nicknamed ‘Sidikhala and wit used to evade paying fare.
My highschool used to be a sporting giant in western province back in the day… As a result, teams often trained hard including morning roadworks alongside intensive training. A precedent had been set in the school whereby each teams on session had to undertake roadworks on Saturday dawns either to the hillside or to town. The hillside run was often not liked due to the tough terrain and the otherwise boring village life around. On the contrary, the town run provided diverse opportunities. Other than a change from the otherwise boring boarding boys only secondary school, other opportunities included eating, seeing Lanyes semi nude, eating free meals and kuchokoza bodaboda riders. Back in the day Bodabodas were only bicycle. Those who schooled in schools like mine in western or Nyanza know how seeing semi nudes to awaken abdalla otherwise made vestigial by occasional parrafin doses meant. Back in school ungepigia watu story za kula Lanyes kwa macho, people had to join sporting teams so as to get the opportunity of seeing semi nude women occasionally. During the runs in order to make it to town, do physicals, eat in our quarter star hotels and get back to school prior to morning preps we used to race at supersonic speeds. Mind you the distance is close to 12kms and the thrill lies in getting to town in time. Ukishafika town we huyo ndani ya hotel. Chai chapo mbili, tatu, tano or so depending on your approximation of what you can consume. Tea was usually very hot but ninjas would down it like people with freezers for internal organs. Then again we used to school with ninjas from interior parts of western province whom chapati came only on Christmas. The first meal is downed in less than two minutes then unaitisha ya pili halafu unalipia ya pili. no one would believe umekunywa chai mbili due to its boiling nature. Another factor that used to work to our advantage, differentiating uniformed school kids was hectic. Halafu kuna wale walikua wanakaa kando ya mlango, after kula vanishes in thin air. Another strategy was kukaa kando ya msee na 100 Bob. When the nigger pays the 100, anasema nmelipia so & so. So everybody in the hotel becomes the mentioned A & B. Funny thing is that we were never caught during my four years coz whenever the hotel owner devised strategies, we immediately re-strategized to eat free meals. Come closing day, others walked the 12kms to save 30-50 Bob so as to eat a meal in the ‘Sidiakhalas’ before boarding for home. Ile maisha ya boarding ilikua inafanya chapo or well fried food iwe kama prisoner na ikus hadi you could do anything to get eat.
Another phenomenon we were well versed with was kutolipa fare. This was because in the course of the term ulitumiwa fare but sa juu mzazi visiting aliku assume kama mawe ya kujenga ndani ya boma utakumbukwa when required ulitumia fare kula mkate. now come closing day, wakukopa watakopa, wakupiga simu nyumbani watumiwe watatumana but there was a certain lot that always got home despite lacking fare. The plan usually entailed dressing in a similar fashion to avoid looking conspicuous halafu mnapanda gari moja. wa kwanza anapanda alipe, atoke kula lap hadi wafike tano hvi. saa ya kurudi wanarudi kama 7-8 hvi. Manamba anauliza mmoja fare anakushow ‘kwani hii gari mtu hulipa fare mara ngapi? si nmekupea fifty mbili nkipanda’. The cycle will continue hadi kuwe na joy riders. Matatu owners came to know of the trick and started taking fare only after gari imeanza safari. Ilikua mnakaa nyuma kabisa ya bus halafu mnapeana pesa pamoja. akihesabu haitoshi. inabidi aanze vitisho, wapi? ntawashukisha!!.hatushuki!, me fare yangu iko kwa hyo pesa sa sitashuka.’ itabidi amehesabu hasara. wakakuja na ya kila mtu ashike pesa mkononi, saa hyo wana anza kuchukua fare your half the journey. Unampea the little umechangiwa kama 40 Bob na saa hyo fare ni 200. akiitisha mnajifanya mnachangiana as distance is covered hadi almost kufika mnamuongeza 20 Bob. In this case akiwashukisha ati hamjalipa you cover the remaining distance on foot mkipiga story. After all we always got home after dark and homes had to be reached at all costs!! I miss my niggers, my partners in crime my aides de camp and not the institution. Hail KHS, it surely churned out men fit to live in this spontaneous society!!
Hangover zinatumaliza…summarize in one sentence.
gumbaru pia bado ni shule.
The craziest thing I ever did is … studying!!!
Ta imajini mimi sikuchoma shule, nilisoma.
The society had to be filled and I believe you belonged to a different category.
SIGWES SOMA. Could someone summarize Biris ?
Gumbaru
Gumbaru in the making
During tea break nilikua nachukua loaf ile quarter nawekelea kwa kikombe then bila kuwekewa chai mimi huyo kwa line round two kiquater kikiwa kwa mfuko.
Mi nimefika hapo kwa “sometime when idle…” Mwenye ana bundles za ku spare asome alaf alete summary
instant gratification generation. pole sana
Hii ni umeffi tu. wacha nikatoe lock, mlango na dirisha moja.
“During these PERIODS…” nimefika hapo nika assume ni umama ina follow! Hangy hainiruhusu kuendelea!
To those with limited time, spaced out & bundles:
It’s a thread about a guy reminiscing of the good times he had in high school raiding the neighborhood shacks and employing rapid swallowing techniques to confuse the operators on the actual consumption. There is a mention of semi-nude women though details are scanty on whether there were dry fry sessions
Huko kwingine sijasoma
Mwenye amesoma hii yote alete summary tafasali.
:eek::D:eek::eek: kuna siku nimebuy chapo ndazi breaktime bell ikaring ikabidi niziweke kwa mfuko ya blazer nikimbie lab. Mode akifunza nahisi arufu ya mandazi then kuangalia nyuma napata maninja walichomoa kutoka kwa mfuko yangu ni kufeast tu. Nilishikwa na hasira ingine wacha tu
Nice Hekaya…imenikumbusha visanga za High school.
Ulikuwa Musingu ama Kach? Hao wanawake semi-nude mlikuwa mnawaonea wapi coz hapo naona umeongeza chumvi. Hekaya iko poa all the same.
hehehe
Kibabii