Surviving the African Parent

 

This story was told to me by a wonderful lady with as much delight on her face as was probably there when the incident initially occurred. My mother spoiled my younger brother terribly. He had no idea how to do any sort of menial labour. He couldn't clean and he certainly couldn't cook. I had warned my mother against giving him this kind of leeway in our current world, but she was adamant I leave her son be. All fine and good. It was cool. At this point, he would have probably broken the house if he tried to clean or set it ablaze if he tried to cook. Yes. He was THAT horrible. It can't be that bad you say? Well, tell that to my family when they heard him say how long it took to boil an egg. It all started like this... My mom was hungry and wanted a snack. Her son decided to make a bread and egg sandwich for her. Knowing her son didn't go near the cooker unless it was to collect food, she asked him how long it took to boil an egg. "Umm..." he started. He said...

This story was possible thanks to the wonderful lady who decided to share her story. I went out to buy akara for Saturday’s breakfast. When I came back home, I met two of my three brothers laughing their heads off. They then proceeded to tell me the most entertaining story of that week! My younger brother(the most troublesome of the three of my brothers), took a towel from the store my mother owned to take to school.  My father caught him trying to take the towel and wanted to flog him. My brother did what any self respecting child would do when faced with such a situation... he RAN My father chased him around the store, to the house and all around the house. At a point in time, my brother even managed to enter the Sienna - and my father followed him! What's more, my father followed him in, out and round the Sienna shouting "Musa catch him!" at the top of his lungs! My brother, ran out the gate and made his escape, waiting till my dad cooled down before he came back insid...

 

 

 My Dad always says... 'There's nothing in this world that did not call you' 'Is that _ (food)  still in the fridge?' 'What is in the fridge?' (four different dads say this...) *After dressing up every single day... 'Come and see this guy, look at that guy, who is this guy, can you beat him?' 'Give me that phone' 'You will soon get married' 'You are not among the numbers, you are the number' 'Your mother is looking for trouble she cannot find' These quotes are a compilation of quotes that various teens gave me as a response to the question "What's that thing that your dad ALWAYS says?"