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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

5 Nov

Kind Children

1./Not long ago, I attended my daughter’s graduation from secondary school. In addition to awards for excellence in academics there were awards for the best behaved boy and girl in the graduating set. I’ve always found that particular award suspicious.

2./What are the parameters for the choice? How do you select the best behaved child in a year group. I concluded that best behaved means overraw best in eye-service). But I digress.

Once upon a time, I heard a message telling parents to pray they raise kind children.

3./ Kindness in one’s children becomes more valuable as you get older. Not their academic excellence, not their sporting prowess, not the awards for best behaviour.

As one ages, the dynamics of the relationship between parent and child alters. The parent loses strength & vigour

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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

4 Nov

1./Parenting is an interesting job. Any way you slice or dice it, you will eventually do stuff because of your kids that you wouldn’t do for any other reason.

Have you ever been in any fast food place in Oxford Circus at the peak of summer? It’s a zoo. People are hot, impatient

2./ and frustrated.

Burger King opened on Ajose Adeogun this week. My kids informed me that it was opening. I was disinterested. I’m not a huge fan of burgers and I’m not a BK person. I like their burgers ok. But McD for fries and I love fries.

3./ Anyway, I knew that I would have no peace until we eat their work.

I trotted off to Ajose. See crowd! Wetin dey sup? Na burger oh!

I joined the queue. Parents like me. Teens, drivers taking pictures of the menu to send to Oga/madam and be told what to order.

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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

28 Sep

1./ One day a few years ago, I went to Dominos to get pizza with my children. While we were waiting to collect our order, a woman came in with 4 kids. She spoke to the server at the till, asking about the pizzas and the prices. After their conversation, she gathered the kids,

2./ turned and left.

They looked crushed. As they left, I overheard them asking mum why they couldn’t have the pizza anymore. From what I overheard of her conversation with the cashier, the pizzas cost more than she expected and she didn’t have enough money to pay.

3./ It was fairly apparent that this was supposed to be a special treat, but because she had misapprehended the pizza prices, she now had a passel of disappointed kids.

My order was ready and as we left, my daughter asked about the woman and her kids.

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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

26 Sep

Ekerete’s Tale

1./ At the dot of 4:30 a.m. Ekerete’s alarm began its insistent and annoying buzz. As he had done for the past 3 months since he chose that sound, he silently promised to change it to something more pleasing. But he knew he wouldn’t.

2./ His previous alarm setting had been a pleasant tune that made him want to linger in bed. After one too many incidents of allowing himself be led astray by the alarm and oversleeping, he changed it to this one that roused him and sometimes made him want to smash his phone.

3./ In response to the buzz, Ekerete stretched and reluctantly yet determinedly got out of bed. On those past few occasions that he’d deceived himself and lingered in bed, he paid the price by being on the ‘standing only’ BRT queue, catching a later bus,

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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

20 Jul

Friends With Benefits; Who Benefits? 🤔 (Part 2)

1./Moments later, she exited the wet-room &Sesan heard the door swish behind her followed by a heavy thud as it slammed shut. He looked up to see her sauntering towards him. She was wearing one of his signature fluffy white robes.

2./ They were made to his size and she looked tiny and vulnerable in it. She'd knotted it loosely and her cleavage was enticingly open to his view but his mind was fixated on the dark puckered nipples he just wanted to nibble and suck.

3./ The upper curve of her lush breasts was on display, seemingly begging for more of his touch. She perched beside him on the bed positioning herself enticingly. Droplets of water ran in tiny rivulets from her neck down her cleavage. Sesan looked appraisingly at Kemdi,

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iNk of Oyo State

@nwaoma007

20 Jul

Friends With Benefits; Who Benefits? 🤔

1./ It had begun innocuously. He wasn’t an aficionado of social media. He dipped in now and again.

The day he “met” Kemdilim, he’d been frustrated at discovering the extent of the mess his father had left behind after his death.

2./ During his father’s lifetime, Sesan had sidestepped in-depth involvement in the family business even though it intersected with his own personal business. For as long as he could remember, he and his father had been at loggerheads.

3./ It was for this reason that he opted to strike out on his own after a few years working with other organizations.

Upon his father’s death, he assumed control of the business. That was when he realised that his father’s predilection for keeping multiple mistresses

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