Found this on a friend's note on facebook and it brought back lovely memories, so I thought to share, Cos I grew up there too.


YOU KNEW YOU GREW UP IN B-SIDE….

1. If you either attended Emotan, Greater tomorrow, Word of faith, Airforce, Federal staff or university staff primary schools.

2. If you either went to Mr Chukwusa’s lesson or independence lesson.

3. If you come home late from lesson because you went to pluck ebelebor

4. Or appitanga

5. Or Guava

6. Or amugie (5 a day was the least of our problems i tell you)

7. If you had a quarrel with someone in your class and set up a game of ten-ten to sort it out.

8. If you spent hours looking for the perfect seed for seweh (one that doesn’t bounce)

9. If you played “leke leke give me one finger”

10. If you played “boju boju oh”

11. If you “koh koh koh, who is there, mr wolf, what do you want, a shiny colour”

12. If “Banya” was a matter of life and death

13. If you played with football cards and competed for how close to the wall you can get it.

14. If you used red Hisbiscus to make stew (lol…play stew that is)

15. If you risked your life plucking cashew (knowing well if your mum sees a tiny stain on your cloth you
are dead)

16. If everyone told you to not swallow guava seeds or else you will get instant appendicitis.

17. If you played “STOP” as if they handed medals to the winners

18. If an 80 leaves notebook suddenly becomes 20 leaves because you have used it all to make
aeroplanes and boats.

19. If the big brown “ODIAKA” book once only second to the bible in your life.

20. If you knew Ali and Simbi so well that they became real to you.

21. If your first knowledge of Calabar was because Edet lived there.

22. If after school every day you looked at the ice cream man and wished we would just give you “BIG YOGOURT”.

23. If the ice cream man by your school gate didn’t give you your change for years forming like he was
busy and forgot.

24. If you take off your socks before your mum arrived to pick you up so she doesn’t see how dirty it is.

25. If you played “will you take my gold or SI-LI-VER”

26. If you scraped your knee and tried to treat yourself secretly so your mum doesn’t find out and conks you (lol… how mean).

27. If you parents said to you “If you fall from there I will not take you to the hospital oh”

28. Or “If you keep blowing that balloon it will burst and suffocate you and I will stand here and do nothing”

29. Or “If I get up to go and look for it myself and find it I will conk you”

30. If you went visiting and only agree to eat and drink from the secret language in your parents look.

31. If you don’t obey that look, you knew you are in trouble.

32. If on the way home you sit at the back of the car so your mum cant reach you but she does and pinches your leg (lol… fun memories)

33. If you once called Penalties “PE-NA-RI-TY”

34. If you were shit scared of GBOMO GBOMO (lol)

35. Finally if to you –the good guy in a movie was the “ACTOR” and the bad guy was the “BOSE”

B-SIDE is too much… be proud of where you grew up!

I didnt grow up in B-side but most of those are childhood memories

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funny,9ize.

Fond memories come flooding back. . .

My childhood was in Spain so i dont have such memories

Na only Spain?

Obaje fun olote

Speak ingrish

Speak ingrish

Speak vernacular

Kunbee:

My childhood was in Spain so i dont have such memories

oh, datz why yu luk like bull

Like you wouldnt have asked me to marry you if i was a babe

^^ Kunbee - he knows you're a babe

Meowwww

Kunbee:

Like you wouldnt have asked me to marry you if i was a babe

marry ko, maria carey ni

i no even knw whether u be man,woman or trans. lol  

Must you know everything

knowlegde is power. i want power.

Kunbee nor be male or female

na[b] it[/b]

makajibbz:

knowlegde is power. i want power.

Wetin you wan use am do

Kunbee:

Wetin you wan use am do

must yu kno evrithing?

Efemena_xy:

Kunbee nor be male or female

na[b] it[/b]

I am going to church

pray for intelligence.

Lol!!

abi??

Lord i lift your name up high

36. If you blamed your witch grandmother for your poor grades in school.

Dolemite:

36. If you blamed your witch grandmother for your poor grades in school.

did yu grow up in benin?

190:

and lastly was been told that rubber bands drains blood from your body!!

yeeeaaah, thats the most famous!!!!

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Didn't grow up in Benin, was born in Lagos, Apapa. Experienced most of the above. . .plus more

Mom used to say if you swallowed bubble gum or rubber bands, it will tie your intestines and you'll die.

If you cried at night, a masquerade will come and carry you (WTF )

You must not open your eyes while praying, or you'll see the devil. . .and he's verrrrry scarrrrry. . .

^^hahaha!!

man!! u must 'av lived ur childhood in fear!!