Photo:Treatiez.blogspot.com
Especially of women…
Don’t bother visiting these set of women at home on fridays and saturdays (especially) because they’ll be blankly unavailable. Why? They’ll be at their fixed weekend degree programme; owambe degree! Guess what you’ll always find in their big bags specially designed for this course?
A polyethylene bag or you can call it nylon bag or poly bag…whatever! She has to transfer extra meals into it (or them, she could keep more than one nylon in her bag). After she’s been served, she orders for extra and/or lie that she hasn’t been served. It’s a round table of women like her so there’s a defending chemistry. She makes sure she packs all the dishes served into that bag(s). Research shows most of these women aren’t poor or from poor homes, it’s just an habit they nourished over time and now it is in them and part of them. Whew!
A roll(s) of tissue paper. Yes! For small chops, cakes and pieces of fried meat/beef. I told you all must go in their bags, right? So that’s it!
An empty bottle(s). Of course! For drinks, wines, ice creams…name them. These women will carefully open more drinks and neatly pour into the empty bottles. Although some are of the opinion that they take it home for their children…*sigh! It’s Nigeria, we never can tell or know those with such honest reason but shey the tin proper?
Toothpicks! Na dem chop pass so dey carry toothpicks all about in case the party(ies) is deficient of one…and besides they may have more than one owambe to attend in a saturday…party freaks!
Only her Transport Fare, she never holds extra cash, she isn’t interested in giving the celebrant money or a smallest gift. She goes there to eat, pack and go. Nothing but her t-fare in a tiny purse in her very big bag.
An extra poly bag for gifts, she will by any/all means collect every and all things shared in the party by the celebrants and well wishers like her. She is on a mission to “take all-ignore none”. She raises her voice till she is heard and till that particular mission is fully accomplished. Chai! Smh.
They are always with their almost empty make-up kit to shine their faces after over eating. You always find their brown powder and its pad in their bags. To catch attention, they have to glow abi? Lol. They have to package their faces well when buckets of sweat due to mission-pack-one- thing-or-the-other, emerge .▼ Hide quoted text
Do you have more to add? Please feel free to send in your comment(s) and more! Need to prepare for an owambe party now, I was invited though but it’s fun spotting them…my pen and paper are intact. (Laughing).
