I have shamefully ignored my blog forever. I took it up as an exercise in practising my writing and so I shall continue.
Let's just consider it a really long summer break!!!
For those of you who don't know, I managed to get myself stuck in the overseas (England) after my little sisters' wedding in May (waiting on the private jet....best excuse EVER). The trauma of having to look after my pikni all by myself for a month was enough to keep me recovering in Lagos for two weeks. I do not know how my friends in the overs do it.
Every week I think "I am going to get back to writing my blog" but it just never happened and my excuses were flimsy.
What I have also noticed is that stuff that use to really upset me and stand out as outrageous, are now becoming the norm for me.
I no longer rant and rave in traffic. Instead I turn to my crackberry and catch up with all my mates all over the world.
My staff are no longer rotating and getting dismissed over the slightest infraction coz I now expect a level of bad manners from them!!! I no longer blame them.
My driver, the rude idiot, took me to the edge just the other day. I took great satisfaction in giving him a long ass lecture with words to the effect of....." It's not your fault you have no manners. I understand nobody took the time to bring you up right so therefore it's not your fault. All the small small slights you think you are showing me, thinking you are too big a man to help me carry heavy things or help me open doors or greet me properly, I take as a sign of your substandard education and upbringing. Bigger men than you treat me with respect. Bigger men than you can never dare talk to me like you do. So don't think that when I ignore what you do and how you talk it's because I am stupid and deserving of your bad manners. I do not engage you because you are not worthy of being engaged. Its as simple as that. Why don't you think about that over the weekend."
I must admit this did cause an attitude adjustment and get me (shock horror) an apology.
I promise to write more and to post some photos sooooonest. Especially now that I am getting out and about as a deputy style editor for a women mag!!!!
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Lol. You said all of that to a driver and you thought he understood? I can't stop laughing!
He probably apologized because he was tired of all the big oyibos you were speaking and just wanted you to end it already!. I'm still laughing. U don't want to know what maids, cleaners and other domestic helps take us through in this country.
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