Recently, I run into a lady I knew from the better days when hugging was a must and you did it without having to look over your shoulders. Over coffee she was telling me of running into a best friend of hers after almost two decades. Hers wasn’t about nostalgia, it was about grudge. what happened was that one night a group of us went to an overnight party lying to their parents they were out on an all-night school trip. The family of the friend being suspicious grill her and she sings. The lady’s family gets wind of the story and her father refuses to talk to her for months. He relented only after the intervention of the clergy he being a religious soul. and this lady still all worked up about the incident.
You remember that first time when your third-grade social studies school teacher gave that viscous kick on your backside? (If you think a kick on that part of the body isn’t painful, then you haven’t experienced someone’s 45+ size shoes on your backside!) You still hold grudges against that guy. and you bump o him in a watering hole> the guy was drinking when you were in you preteens and he’s still drinking when you’re on the high side of your thirties! How in the world do this people do it! And you thought he was out of circulation.
How can you forget the uncle of your would-be girlfriend who ambushed you in your first date with her? What did he do? I’ll tell you what you did. He gave you lips so swollen a circus clown would have a heart attack with envy! That is what he did; mess with the most important part of your anatomy for that particular day! And all week you have been spying for the most secluded part of the park! Yes, you still hold a grudge against him. You bump into him after a decade and a half.
“Hello!”
He looks at you and… he doesn’t recognize you!
“Sorry, do I know you?”
h…hmmm…sorry>I mistook you from someone else.”
That is the smart way out. How else could have revealed you identity.
“Don’t you remember? You busted my lips on the date I was going to smooch your niece!”
No! You wouldn’t say that. And what’s more the guy who probably has never gone
anywhere near a gym us still muscular. How do they do it? You have tried pumping iron for a couple of years and what you got was not bulging biceps, but a dislocated shoulder!
Remember the day you found out that hotdogs had nothing to do with the dogs! Ha! It wasn’t you fault in the first place! Once a “diaspora’ guy invites a few of you to sumptuous breakfast. You were sinking you teeth into your very first bite when someone whispered in your rears… “It’s dog meat!” You have never thrown up so violently everyone: even when you thought Tej’s reputation of throwing you from the chair to the ground and braved seven or eight glasses. Your family was so worried that they had to carry you to the nearest clinic in the dead of the night. Even a Tyson uppercut wouldn’t have put you in such a deep sleep. Still, you hold a grudge on the friend who told you the dog in the hotdogs was real.
The next time you run into him he has adopted this belief where eating hotdogs was tantamount to eating that Forbidden Apple! Oh, is that so! Why, if you stretched all the hotdogs the guy has gobbled up in the all the years, you could cordon off an entire part of the town from Bole to Gullele!
The first time I ever went to a cinema was memorable in more ways than one: in the first place there was no hero in this world any …than Jon Wayne. The guy gunned down so many people with a single pistol you wonder
The first time the elder brother of you girlfriend caught you un the act and gave you the kick of your life. The first time you find out what the foreigner s called hot dogs have nothing to do with god. GSU that is for “God saves us!
The first time you find out that Indian music was the gold medalist in the music scene and you actually believed it.
The first time…you were in a cinema and you thought the cowboy who shoots everyone and you thought it was for real. That I experience. The first time I went to the cinemas accompanied by someone I was not much interested about the John Wayne guy. (And they say ‘The Terminator film idea was new. It wasn’t! The first terminator was John Wayne! (I don’t know why but I still enjoy old cowboy films!) You know what the kids have down They have sprinkled found peeper ion the floor and the entire hall was coughing its lungs out.
That doesn’t always happen.
Court Adjourned, that’s it!
Remembering the First time
There is a bad sheep in every flock
That’s pretty much the picture…
Look, if you don’t mind my saying so…
One thing we’re witnessing in these times of so much uncertainty is the…
Well, the at necessarily doesn’t mean it would be a much quitter village. no way.
They take is t s as a blow to tier pride
That’s the problem! Most of them are in the wrong place.
Tired of being led up the garden path…
And the other guy comes as a sort of expert witness.
Clip your wings
Cut the ground under people’s feet
You find yourself in a sink or swim situation
Now probably, no one would try to make sense of things. You know, like saying “I don’t think it is as you said.”
We are talking about evil people, many of whom we’ve these days.
Sometimes you think people a complete realignment should take place.
Cheating you out of your hard-earned money…
Look, after witnessing in at the Capitol Hill recently you can’t help asking a hundred and one questions. Am I really watching this happening in the most powerful l country on earth? Am I seeing this happening in a country supposedly the bacon of what a truly democratic system offers? One thing that can be said is that our glasses through which we look at that country will be stained, and stained in the wrong way.
The international chess board is not the same as it was. It is really interesting all those elected officials who are so fond of throwing …all around scurry to save themselves. This should be the time where the real job of muscle flexing is needed. We’re watching!
What is scary to me is not only their actions.
There are many things we are tired of listening to year in, year out. (Will continue next week.)
The Ethiopian Heraled 17 January
