HAPPY MARRIED LIFE

HE could hardly hold back his crave for a bit, salivating in seconds. He quickly snatched a slice, put it in his mouth and began to chewing with speed, like a little boy stealing from his mother’s pot, watching out for his wife with the corner of his eyes. Just then comfort walked it.“Na wa oh …. You no fit wait small for me self” she said.“You self, why you waste time like that, person dey hungry” he shot back.“Oh sorry, I de new here now, I been they find where you dey keep the pepper” she pleaded.“No wahala, make one chop” he said.In some minutes, they were through comfort removed all they used to eat, brought a piece of cloth and wiped the table. She then brought a bottle of fant and handed it over to Amos. He was both overwhelmed and grateful unaccustomed to such huxinioustreat. He quickly knocked the metal lid it open with his teeth and almost emptied everything in one gap after which he poured down the empty bottle on flour and comfort picked it up and left then he roped reposition the table that served duat purpose at the center of the living room.*******At the work shop later that day, Amos went about his work with a joyful air around him, humming a tune softly. Working tirelessly and approaching everyone with a broad smile. Ade his closet pal, who had been. Specifically observing him from a distance could not take it anymore, he walked up to him…“Na wa oh… Iyawo good oh” he said.“See as you just de fresh, dey happy”“Oh man! Thank God for you oh”“My brother, no be small thing oh” Amos Said “Na God oh”“How she dey now?” Solo asked “She de fine shaa” Amos replied “I know say she dey cook better chop for you naa, na him, make you just dey fresh like this” Ade added“For where!”“Na you fresh pass me now” Amos argued “Leave that thing abeg!”“Me I go find my own wife marry jare!”“No be only you wey like better thing” Solo said.“Go marry oh… make time no pass you oh” Amos said.“That one de shaa…”“Abeg, oga don call me for phone dey hala”“Na you hold him work?” Solo asked“Na Akpan him give, but as him no well, him say make I help am” Amos replied“But na only shock absorber na him de worry”“No other thing”You done do am?” Solo Asked“Ehn… but I never test am… no vex just help test am abeg, work full my hand”“No wahala, where you keep the oil? Ade asked.“Check under that bench” Amos said pointing to an old rickcty wooden bench, short of one leg, leaned against an empty oil paint tin for support.Just then, Amos heard the sound of a paring aching their road side workshop, he looked up to see it was a tricycle popular called (keke). It was the life of the owner of the vehicle he was working on the tricycle has brought everybody called her “Oga Madam” she alighted from the keke and scavenged in her enormous hand bag for money which she handed over to the keke driver. She was a big buxom woman in her early fifties, slightly overweight, who made every effort to look good. Though she was light in complexion but everyone could see that it was the result of her investment in skin toning cosmetics which did not favor her well. Her joint areas did not respond to the numerous skin lightening cream as they stubbornly maintained their dark complexion. The left side of her face was greenish black from sunburn and strong body creams. She ran a very flourishing super market on the next street. Amos had been her family mechanic for along time, in fact she met him through her husband. They both took special interest in Amos owing to this hard work and commitment to any task handed over to him and the usual cheerful manner with which he does his work and attends to his patronizes. “Oyibo, wetin dey make you happy every time?” she could ask him.“Oga Madam na God wey full my bele oh”On that day, she work an ox-blood official skirt suit, and black shoes with low heels. She had her hair in braids, held together with a white velvet hair ruffle. “Oga madam!” Amos called out.“e done tey oh”“Ehn ehh …. Oyibo no just call me oh!” she shot back.“Me and you get big palava oh!”“wetin” he asked “So you de marry for this life, you no tell me abi?” she asked“You just disappear, come back with wife baa?”“Chai! Oga madam no vex” he pleaded “Ehn get as e happen”

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