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[b]those days when we went to school, lined up &
the headmistress & teachers inspect our nails &
uniform & then we match to our classrooms...You
Remember na??
Matching and singing to your classrooms-- kawa si ile eko wa lakoko
ka fetisile si oun toluka wa nko wa etc, etc

Those days of Nasco Biscuit, Okin Biscuit, Trebor,
Iced Colored water tied in nylon which we called
"lolly, lolly or ice kongi.

*The
days of Ali & Simbi, Mr Salami & Mrs Salami, Agbo
lives in Calabar....Edet is a boy *, Akin goes to school, The drummer boy
Ralia the sugar girl( uuhnn Ayawa), Chike and Onitsha, Mr and Mrs Bako.(NOEC)
Mr Giwa is a trader. Jane and Janet.

Those days when we wear 5shirts and put
carton in our nicker to avoid much pain when we
are flogged. - Coming late to school and taking the jungle.(you know the jungle now.)

Those days when we sneak out of school to
pluck Mangoes - to Play/watch illegal interschool matches on the street, -
to play set on table tennis standards.- to bet on dice rolling and some other etcera etcera.

*Those days when we feign
illness just to dodge farm work(lol)
My friend was the class captain and myself the assistant, each farm/agric day was always a day to develop
Rheumatism even though we didn't know the meaning, His mother was a nurse so he would come to school with a
heavy bandage and for me not to rat him out, he had to give me my own bandage, he always tied the right arm while
I tied the left leg claiming rheumatism. Imagine the class captain and the assistant having rheumatism same day,
funny enough it worked most of the time.

Chei, I also remember those days when one
naira na CORRECT money, when groundnut was
5kobo & Choco Milo Sweet was 5 kobo
5 kobo ground-nut and guguru was a special afternoon delicacy before evening lesson.

*Those days of messing game,who is in the
garden, police and thief, fire the mountain, etc..

Those days when we use to build houses with
sand, play suwe game, tinco tinco,change ur style,
ten ten, skipping, stop!.... U remember nah!!! uuhn I think those were for girls, guys play football, bet with their school uniform on
table-tennis standard, and bet -roll dice or bet-throw rubber bands or organize jungle fights.(Oju-olomo oto)
God have mercy.

*Those days when we used to fly kite on streets,
when boys used to use the paint bucket cover as
tire & their daddy's hanger as the steering or roll tire and bicycle rim.

Those
days when rubber band was stock exchange!!


*Those days when Votron, Jimbo, Power Rangers
and Spider Man were our favourite cartoon

Those days when we used to drink water from
the tap and even suck out the water if it's not
coming out
[i]After playing football in the hot sun and you are perched, you just have to drink water
even if it means sucking it out when the pressure is low.

*Those days when NTA will show rainbow color
for 30 minutes, then national anthem before they
resume program @ 4pm

*Those days when Basket sandals, Simbi & Bata
sandals were the best *Those days we used to shout "airplane throw
bag of money for me" saint look shoe for girls and peka or zito sandals for fashionable guys.

Those days when guys would play football, got injured and hide it, but when it was found out
by the parents,- 'mum I didn't play football o, it was the iron pail that injured me'.

Those days when you tell your parents you were going for Saturday lesson or choir practice
but you know guys and bicycles. we would rent bicycles and the man would collect our sandals
or slippers in case we over-stayed the agreed time. God helped you, you over-stayed and you didn't have enough to
pay for the extra-time then you forfeited your sandals/slippers. There was a way around that. we leave home with an
extra leg of slippers (slippers was cheap mind you) and if we over-stayed the bicycle,we returned it by staying in one corner
rolled the bicycle to the owner and run as far as our tiny legs could take us. He has his bicycle and a leg each of our slippers, we go home
complete because of the extra leg of slippers we brought along. win - win.

Youthful exuberance at its best, but it was fun aaaahh.

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