Good day o
lovely readers of The Way Esther Sees It…… it’s weekend again and I’m sure
everyone is as delighted as I am….. what y’all up to today? Any parties,
owambes, etc?
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Meanwhile,
it’s been a while I heard from Moby o…. been trying her number but she’s not
been picking….. please if you reach her tell her that her partner-in-craze
misses her o.
Well, during
the week, Duru used this picture and talked extensively about African parents
and their methods of “slavery” and I tried to dismiss it. But on Wednesday, I had
my own dose of it.
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I came back
after a long ass day, writhing with menstrual cramps from satan the devil, I could
hardly stand straight sef. I got into the house, and the following conversation
ensued between my mum and I;
Mother:
Esther, what is wrong with you?
Me: Mummy,
my enemies are at it with this curse of menstrual cramps o.
I sobbed a lil here
Mother: Eiya….
Ndo….. Oya enter inside, take your bath with warm water then take felvin or
paracetamol and then rest.
Me: Okay
mummy. Thank you.
I got in, did as instructed and then got into bed
to rest as INSTRUCTED. 10mins later, I heard her calling my name.
Mother:
ESTHER!!!!
I answered in my tiniest and weakest voice
Me: Maaaaaa but I didn’t get up from bed
Mother:
ESTHER!!!!!!
WTF could she possibly want from me this time? I thought
she asked me to rest
Me: Yes mummy…….
This time she screamed the loudest
Mother:
NNEDINMA!!!!!
Me:
MUMMY!!!!!
Mother: Abeg
do and go and pound the banga I bought o
Huh! I thought she asked me to rest…. How did
pounding banga become a form of resting biko?
Me: But
mummy….. mummy but I’m tired and my waist is paining me.
Mother:
well, you can choose to do it now or first thing tomorrow morning because I want
to cook and leave this house before 8am.
OMG! What happened to resting again? On the
bright side, she’d cook my best soup just the way I like it so I’d just wake up
as early as 5am and get the pounding out of the way.
I woke up the next morning and began to carry out
my daughterly duties as good as I could and then she called;
Mother:
Esther….
Why is she even awake at this time?
Me: Yes
mummy
Mother: Abeg
pound small pepper and onions for me when you’re done with the banga.
Me: But
mummy what has fresh pepper got to do with banga soup?
Mother: Who
says I’m cooking banga soup? I want to cook jollof banga rice and beans
WTAF??????
Me: Wait!!!!
Mummy you mean I’m slaving for just one meal?
Mother: Who
says it’s one meal? We can’t finish everything this morning now… you’ll eat the
rest later in the evening. If it doesn’t finish then, that means it will enter
the fridge and that’s meal for other days…. So you see?
Me: Okay…. So
it’s not bad enough that I have to pound banga this early morning…. Why do I have
to start pounding pepper and onions na?
Mother: Abeg
shut up your smelling mouth there and pound for me biko!!!!! No be your hand my
blender for spoil? You don gree buy another one for me?
Immediately those songs they sing in nollywood
when the wicked madam is maltreating the maid starts to play in my head…..
Please how is
this not slavery?
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On Friday morning,
I woke up to get dressed for the day and saw bitter kola peels and tom-tom
wrappers everywhere around where mumc sat the previous night. She’s been having
these severe coughing spree that has defied antibiotics, so she has taken
bitter kola and tom-tom as her new diet.
Me:
Mummy!!!!!
Mother:
Gideon pikin…. Wetin?
Me: Mummy
why is there bitter kola peels and tomtom wrappers everywhere here?
Mother:
because I threw them there na
Me: I know
you threw them there…. Why
Mother: so
that you will sweep the sitting room na and not give me the excuse that it’s
only adults in the house so it’s not dirty.
Me: but
mummy…. There was the black cellophane you bought the things in why didn’t you
just throw these things inside?
Mother:
Because I’m not barren…. I have children that can sweep so I can throw dirts
wherever I want
Please remind me of how this isn’t slavery again…….
P.S: Tuesday’s
post; THE GREED GAME, was a game and only 2 guys were able to prove they weren’t
part of the greedy bunch. So Mannie, Eddie, Chioma, Lohla and Sophia please
send me a mail containing your mobile numbers so I can send your top ups… thank
you. Ernie and Obiamaka, how will we work out our own now?
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Lool your Mum is epic.
ReplyDeleteI hope you've gotten your top up
DeleteThanks I chop etisalat
ReplyDeleteIt's really your lucky day today mami
DeleteUhhhh I laughed all the way mehnn!!! It's weird how I now look forward to reading from you Mami...
ReplyDeleteAwwwww... you know the feeling is mutual mami
DeleteWow... I have been missing this blog all this while,thank God I obeyed my spirit today.
ReplyDeleteSometimes mothers can be mean eeehn,I can relate well with your post.
good one there,1st time here
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Thank God you obeyed the spirit today o... please what's your network provider? or send a mail to esthernwaomu@gmail.com so I can send your top up for being the 3rd to comment today
DeleteThanks @Esther Nwaomu I got the top up.ghenghen.Na to dey visit every time.
DeleteWho no like freebies *shinesteeth *
Maybe that's why my mom called me lazy as a kid. Lol.
ReplyDeleteFunny post
#Mannie
Mannie where the mail na?
DeleteNothing exciting this weekend ooooo - I'm working tonight and I have a feeling some patients are going to annoy me tonight, lol. Anything planned for ghe weekend?
ReplyDeleteLol @ your mother - that is so typical of African parents - I love and hate them in equal measure. Lol, that's a new and improved 'form' of slavery - I have had my fair share darling
This is a story worth recounting. Epic!
ReplyDeleteBy recommendation from BMF,i decided to visit this blog...it seems it's Bloggers arena on this post lol
ReplyDeleteAnyway back to the post,i can imagine the Mary Poppings. State. Mothers though. She knows you won't sweep for weeks with the claim that it's not dirty so she had to do that to ensure you sweep the house. Eyaaaa sorry atleast she made your favourite and it's not slavery.
Lovely blog. Keep it up and will try visit more often.
Loooooooool my mama no try am oh maybe cos I was a very heady child so she just left me *coversface.
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Lol very typical of african parents. Nice post hun.
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hahaha Nne gi eh! Abeg that ine na slavery ooo .
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