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'Kene! Kene! You this boy all your mates are buying cars and building houses. You are still here sleeping, continue'

He just turned over on the bed, he had been out drinking with his friends all night and wasn't ready to wake up.

Kenechukwu Charles Okolie was a 24 year old graduate of one of those *pointless courses that universities offer with no practical societal applications. He had finished his youth service the previous year and there were no job prospects in sight even after submitting his resume to various offices and filing a bunch of online applications. Kene was a what any enlightened (not to be confused with educated! Don't be silly) individual would call a product of a failed system (note: author may be biased). So he had resigned to fate and joined the ever-growing number of jobless graduates that roamed the streets on a daily basis (some stay at home and watch TV or browse facebook, twitter, nairaland etc). He lived with his parents and two siblings. His father was a civil servant who had dedicated his life to the civil service for 30 years, while his mother was a secondary school teacher (cliché alert!)

He finally got up after a long period, his head aching with a serious hangover. One of his guys (Dele), had asked him to join for a painting job today. He wasn't receiving any allowances, so he had to engage in various means to get some cash in his pocket. The damn recession was some serious stuff. Lara didn't understand situation and would always want one thing or the other (oh! Lara was his 'babe'. She lived on the next street and they'd been seeing each other for 10 months).

**Just saw a potential idiot dude wearing a sandal on one foot and a shoe on the other. Different types of crays (crazy). Would take a pic but he would see me. LOL

He stood up and went to take a bath (not shower o! He used 'pail and rubber'). After putting on some random clothes, he got an old short and singlet, put them into his bag and headed to the kitchen, he was really hungry. He checked the pots and saw the porridge yam his mum had left for him. The food was quickly downed with a sachet of pure (packaged) water, then Kene locked the house and went in search of Dele.

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It was quarter past 7 when they closed for the day (longer days shorter nights). His muscles ached from all the continuous motions of screeding and painting. His share of the money was 5k, good times he thought. It's not every day he sees such money. His account balance with GTB was N320.59 and he had N250 before so all his 'life savings' right now was N5,570.59 although he hasn't removed transport to go home. On his current budget, first first was subscription for MB. He hadn't been on online for 2 weeks and was experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

**Update: just saw the different shoe guy again. He was with same shoes now, perhaps he was testing the sandals.

He would buy the recharge card at the joint where he was going to hang with his friends. He was on form today so at least pepper soup must go down. Maybe he would visit Lara tomorrow. He and Dele trekked to the junction where they would enter car to their area and joined the struggle before jumping into a vehicle.

His phone started ringing, he checked the caller. It was 'Isaac MTN' (every group had a car guy; in this case Isaac). 'Isaac how far?' Kene said answering the call.

'Guy, where you dey like this? Match go soon start oh!' Manchester United was playing Fenerbahce and they had decided to watch it at their usual place.

'O'boy I dey inside moto oh! We go soon reach there sha. Reserve seat for normal table' he told Isaac.

'Kene, no be only seat. I reserve full table for you. Hurry up oh!'

Kene wasn't going to miss the match. He had staked a cumulative bet on nairabet with N500 and stood a chance of winning N5,438,400 (bonus included) if Man U scored over 3.5. All the other matches had entered. In his mind he was like 'mehn, if this match enter I don hammer no be small. Flexing things on point. Levels go change!'.

Some minutes later he was at the joint watching the kick off. He joined other man u fans in chanting

'Glory, glory, Man United,
Glory, glory, Man United,
Glory, glory, Man United,
As the reds go marching on, on, on.'

You can check what the scores were if you don't already know (20th October, 2016).

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