Come and see me and my landlord arguing very hot last four nights over rent.
I just took half of a quarter of akpeteshie and I was so drunk and went to ask him to increase my rent – by force.
You see what alcohol can do? It can reverse you into thinking you are on course.
It was just something small I took o and all of a sudden I thought the whole world was mine – very nice but dangerous!
When he came back the following day with the new rent card, we started the argument again.
This time, he had reduced my rent koraaa only for me to realise he was also drunk! Apio is killing people o – either through liver damage or reckless driving by drunk drivers or negative decision making.
My headache now is about the youth and smoking – girl children smoking anything that can burn. Ao! Hmmm!
“My dear Mawuli, I am struggling with life having to take care of my 5 children whom I had with two men.
It hasn’t been easy for me being a single mother in view of their school, food, healthcare, accommodation, among others”.
Vivian, my in-coming new girlfriend continued: “I just ended a recent relationship with a married man who is very stingy. Anytime I ask him for money, he complains.
Recently I asked him for money to send my sick child to the hospital and he asked me to rather call the father of my child, can you imagine?”
“Imagine what?” I asked in my head! At this point, I pretended I was going to be different and remarked: “Oh why would your side-man do such a thing to you? That’s so bad.
Once he is in a relationship with you, he should at least support you one way or the other even if it has to do with your kids’ fees and medical bills”.
She didn’t know what I was really thinking – either to continue pursuing her or I should backtrack slowly or fast and run!
While pretending to be sympathizing with her and condemning her ex baby father, I was laughing inside my head telling myself: “Ei this woman doesn’t know that she is actually talking to the board chairman of all the ‘useless’ men who don’t take responsibilities for other men’s children o”.
Truth is, not many men care about the welfare of the kids of other men.
Most men just want access to chop and go and you are bringing them ‘pre-payable’ bills in advance.
Weytin concern us? Lailai! I beg, I won’t be any different o, Auntie Ama, my neighbour.
Men don’t ‘sympathise’ easily like that except for a very few affluent and naturally magnanimously confused men who may start but cannot and will not be able to sustain it.
Akorfa, my niece, I am warning you today – beware of whoever may make you pregnant today so that you don’t later accuse them later in life that they are stingy and irresponsible o.
They also just want to have their way and go their somewhere and have a sound sleep.
This is the irresponsible life many men live. Men, you too be responsible o.
This is not politics but real life; you know I don’t like talking politics.
But I often posit that anybody who says ‘as for me, I don’t like politics is more of a politician than those who have declared their stands!
Nobody really walks in the middle of the road; except that some do it stylishly as if they are indeed walking in the middle of the road and sometimes ‘get hurt’ by so doing.
The reason I don’t believe in what we term ‘floating voters’.
They present themselves as the objective ones and would often posture: ‘let’s call a spade a spade or with a more modern cliché: ‘it is what it is’.
Really? Yooo! Let your employer break wind and go and tell the world what he or she has done and describe it as ‘it is what it is’! This useless column won’t come to your rescue o.
As for this column er, it is so so abstract things nkoaa with no truth! Hahahahahaha!
You remember the colour blue guy who voted for MJ in 2012 even though he was a polling agent for colour blue in Kpando?
According to him, he only realized he had voted ‘wrongly’ after dropping in the ballot paper in the box.
What made him believe that the ‘Volta Voter’ thing is not a physical one was the fact that soon after casting his vote, he saw an old man standing under some mango tree and smiling at him! E finish am! Abeg, this is just for fun o, yoo!
Then there was this colour green guy also who went to shout at a suburb of Kumasi just before the 2000 presidential election that ‘Prof will win’.
December this year will mark his 26th anniversary of…..! Hahahahaha!
Whether we like it or not we would continue to choose our leaders the way people perceive in our decision-making.
The only interesting development in contemporary times is that the Gen Z’s don’t know what the colour blue or colour green means o – if you meet their expectations, you stay; if not, woala o woalaaa – they don’t have time and they are many too.
Forget about the old folks who say they are floating voters – they often don’t tell themselves the truth and usually highly educated too.
The real deals are the Genz’s now o, joke with them and your political fortunes may be at risk of being risked by their thumbs – no gidigidi; just try them and see something small!
Ehern talk of politicians and humility.
When people describe themselves as ‘I am a humble and down-to-earth person’, what at all do they mean?
You have no idea how it pains me to hear this especially when you see at the back of his car an old school sticker that reads: ‘I am a proud santa’.
Humble there and proud here? No, Bra Kwame, that is double standard. You can’t do the two.
Let people describe you as humble and not you yourself.
I sat on a panel to interview a job applicant,
he should tell us about himself, he started by saying: ‘my name is Mr Brown’.
Must you be the one to start giving titles? Should such a person get the job, you can be sure he would have a problem with people especially his subordinates and his peers who fail to address him as ‘Sir’ or ‘Mr Brown’.
Abeg, let’s be humble even though we are all pretending to be humble when we are actually proud! The number one cause of a truly humble person is poverty. No be so?
Though not many people who become rich later become proud.
You naaa, you don’t have sempua, daama or kapr3 and you want to bluff who?
That is why when it is getting to the end of the month, I avoid this guy who is not poor but simply does not manage his finances well.
He is fond of greeting me around this time,
he would first of all send me either a message or a motivational video.
Soon after that, he would ask me for a soft loan, just yesterday, he did same again.
He first sent me the song in which there is a line that says: ‘if I no get I go borrow…’. I blocked him immediately.
I don’t want any problem; everybody is managing especially so long as God is giving us the energy to go and come every day! Be careful who you give soft loans to; you would have to explain to most of them one million times why you need your money back.
If you no get, you no get, finish! If I no get I go borrow…from who?
Happy weekend and remember, my niece Akuwavi, that the thing of that guy you are planning to put in your mouth tomorrow nu, was in another lady’s ‘engine room’ last night o.
People are just not faithful to themselves – HIV is real as alcohol and shisha are avoidable!
Enjoy life to the fullest because it is not as long as you think and remember the fact that men and women are both good and bad! Simple!
