Thread by @dyingscribe

Let me tell you a list of things that happened to me when I visited Nigeria when I was 16 to 17. This is a thread

https://twitter.com/wayofffem/status/1673769447998234645

1. Got pushed into a neck high ditch full of raw sewage by a passing motorcyclist for no reason

He purposely weaved in and out of traffic just to get near and push me in

I walked two miles home like that, with people constantly asking me if "I was stupid?" or "go home and wash"

2. My father bought me two rabbits as a gift. I named them Bugs and Lola. One day, I came home with malaria. And I crashed on the couch just in time to witness some hands reach under our gate and snatch a curious Bugs.

The next day, they dumped his cooked bones on our gate.

3. I GOT MALARIA FOUR TIMES.

FOUR.

NOT THREE.

NOT TWO.

FOUR.

4. I would spend at least an hour in the afternoon every day prepping the mosquito net with the focus only gifted to the insane or drugged because mosquitos made it impossible for me to sleep.

Somehow the mosquitos always won.

5. My dad left on a business trip. He left me with enough money to buy phone airtime, plenty of food, and enough money to buy fuel to use the generator almost nonstop.

I was walking to buy fuel. Man bumped into me, patted me on the back and said "sorry, my brother" (1/2)

5. While this was happening, some old men and 3 police officers were dying laughing on a bench across from me.

Idk what was funny.

I didn't get it.

10 minutes later, I patted my pocket, noticed it was empty and realized it was me.

The joke was on me.

6. I saw like 7 people die on two different instances.

One was where a bull got loose and gored a guy while stomping on another.

The other, involved a big truck tipping over on a busy street.

7. An entire neighborhood was on fire for like a day or two and for the next week and a half while I was in class, there was just smoke constantly in my face and I know this is just a mild irritant but it was serious to me okay

8. The amount of naked men with mental issues I saw just roaming the streets. Just dick and balls just out, that was also annoying.

First time, I was like

Me: Shouldn't we call the police?

My classmate: Nah. That's just a madman.

Me: Oh. Just.

9. This one is actually a fun one. So, I did not get sick from that sewage that I fell in but a little while later I got this massive tennis ball sized boil on my thigh and my dad let me inject myself with anesthetic and use a scalpel to cut it open and lance it

10. I had people fatter than me, far fatter, call me the Nigerian insult for a fat person just cuz I sounded American.

"Orobo"

I'm like, how dare you. You are waddling

My mother does not understand why I don't want to go back to Nigeria so badly. I feel like someone put a curse on me so that every time I step back on that land something must go wrong. There was more shit that happened, I just can't think of it right now

@albesqlop17 @Painhell1 I told him I was taller and heavier and I would get up first

he turned around didn't say anything

never saw him again

never came back to pick me up