Dixon's Corner: ONCE UPON A GOVERNMENT WORKER

Hello there, lovely Dixon’s diary readers. Good to know you are here again. You know what? Wonders shall never cease to happen. Hmmm, ‘pekele pekele arugo jegbese, tani o san?’  Meaning; ‘brouhaha brouhaha an aged person is in debt. who’s going to pay?’  That was what I said immediately she left. Who? You ask?! It’s this woman o who looks like…I don’t even know how to describe her. 

She was talking to Mrs. Benjamin, my neighbor who lives next door. I peeped from the window and I thought what they were discussing was none of my business. Few minutes later, what I heard was the woman shouting ekasan o (good afternoon).
Immediately I heard that, I knew that was an invitation for me to join whatever they were discussing. At this time, she was done with Mrs. Benjamin. 

The woman faced me and asked me;

‘What is your name?’

I replied by asking her what she asked me. ‘My name?’

‘I mean your father’s name’. She replied.

‘Excuse me! What do you want to do with my father’s name?’

‘We are conducting a survey’. She answered.

‘Oh I see!’ I exclaimed. Then I asked, ‘what survey?’ and before I could close my mouth, she had started narrating the whole story-------‘the government wants to provide some basic amenities for the citizens. So, they have divided all the houses into zones and that’s why I am here as the representative of the government to collect some information about you and your house’. She concluded.

I said ‘ok’. ‘But I have to be sure who you are before I start giving you my vital information’.

She laughed and she asked. ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘You can even ask Mr. Timothy (another neighbor) about me’. ‘He knows me very well. When he comes back from work, tell him Ayo came’.

I did not listen to her. So, I said; ‘well…that is your own relationship with him’. ‘Show me your I D card’. I inquired.

Furiously, she asked me, do you think am a kind of 419 or something?

I answered her calmly. ‘I never said that’. ‘Just let me see your I D card’. I insisted.

The next thing she did was ‘mstchew’. She turned her back against me.

That was when I said ‘pekele pekele arugo jegbese, tani o san?’  Meaning; ‘brouhaha brouhaha an aged person is in debt, who’s gonna to pay?

That was how she left. Even though I saw an inscription, “Edo State Government”, on the bag pack she was carrying. I didn’t even bother to call her back because I was enjoying the way she was shaking her backside in front of me as she walked out of the compound.

Readers, what do you think? Have I gone too far by asking for her I D card? As for me, I think she overreacted. She could have shown me her I D card and errythin would have been smooth…only if she doesn’t have one.

Readers, like I will always conclude. If you have any personal experience too and you want it to be shared live right on Radio360naija’sblogspot, why don’t you send it to this e-mail address; dixon_damilola@yahoo.com.

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Thanks. Yours, Dixon Damilola Paul.