
01/02/2025
So there was this time I was planning to select some of my old inner-wears and throw them but I sincerely didn't have the time to because of the kind of work I was doing at that time. At that time too I was planning to buy a packet of new ones to replace the ones I planned to throw away.
One Friday evening on my way back from work, I remembered the moment I saw a man who was selling boxers. You need to see how I thanked God that moment. Sandra, a crush of mine was to come to my house on Saturday which was the following day. This was a girl I have tried over and over again to get close to. I didn't want her to see me in old boxers Ofcos and that was the more reason I alighted from the bus to buy a new packet for myself.
The following morning which was a Saturday, and also the day Sandra was to come, I selected the old boxers I had and took them outside to burn them. I also added two shirts that had changed color completely because I wore them more than the recommended years due to lack. 😀 I dropped them outside my door and went inside to pick matches and kero so I could set them ablaze and drop my condolences.
I think I spent close to 30 minutes inside the house perambulating. When I emerged from the house with kero and matches, my old boxers were gone. Five of them in number all gone with the two shirts I dropped on the floor.
I looked around.
There was no one close to ask. I began to wonder who would come and carry old used boxers and shirts that had become rags to wear.
I ended up going back inside the house.
Later that evening after Sandra my beloved had visited and I was walking her out, I saw one popular mentally unstable man whom I usually give little change to when he hails me.
He was sitting in front of my gate.
As I stepped out with Sandra he lifted his hands and hailed me.
"Oga Victor. I greet you and your wife."
I laughed.
"Tayo, how na?"
"Your boy dey. I wan thank you o. You see that your cloth wey you keep for outside, na me carry am. I wait for you but you no commot."
"Really. No wonder. I looked for the clothes when I came out but didn't see them."
He laughed.
"Na me. Na me carry am."
Sandra was smiling. I know in her mind she was saying eyaaa... She held my hands even tighter. Doh baby girl.
Then it was as if an evil spirit entered him. He changed and spoilt the whole thing.
"That boxer tear o. E tear well well but I go manage am. I think say na only me dey wear tear tear boxer, but when I see your own, I shout Jesus my father. Your own bad."
Sandra left my hand. So quick!
"Out of the five boxers I carry, I bring back 1 make I show you. That one no get use at all. So I wan tell you say I go burn am."
He pulled out one of the boxers from his pocket and opened it.
"You see this one, even mad man no go collect am."
I wept!
Truly, he wasn’t wrong even though he wasn’t mentally okay because na boxer wey be say when I wear am, my Akpa Amu will be dropping because it was more like a mini skirt boxer.
So when Sandra saw it…. I cannot finish the story again. 😭😭😭😭😭
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1st February 2025
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