I believe it is peculiarly characteristic of Nigerian parents to buy extremely oversized clothing and accessories for their children.

I mean, how can you go to the market to buy a shirt or shoe for me and you left me at home?

How?

So my mum will take a broom stick to measure my leg before going to the market and then come back with a shoe that is almost the size of my father's leg.

Wawu!

Mummy edakun, bhet what happened to the broomstick you went with na?

Or issit that you measure my leg to goan buy shoe for daddy? �

Of course, you know I cannot voice any of these out. Na inside my mind the conversation dey go on.

Or should I talk about how my dad will drive to Warri to buy longsleeve shirts for me and my brother, that after wearing the shirt, we will now be looking like all those overzealous upcoming evangelist sent against their will to win lost souls for Christ in the remotest of villages.

The painful part is that my dad will now be saying,

Wow! See as this cloth fit you. I wish I can take it for myself.

Inside my mind I wee be like, why not just take it na, it's kukuma your size you have bought so.

For many years, I tried to figure out why our parents were always exhibiting this behavior.

If it's because they want us to wear the cloths for a longer period as we dey grow like agric fowl, so that we won't be outgrowing cloths per second, per second.

But you know what usually happens?

Before we will now grow into the cloths, like when the one they bought for me is now actually my size, the shirt go don wash, fade or tear anyhow.

So what is now the point?

As a young boy with too much swag, I was always having severe chest pain in my neck whenever my parents wanted to get us new cloths.

The day I gave up on the struggle was when my mum accompanied my dad to the optometrist to select a glass frame for him

Brethren, my supposedly ever young fineboy dad came back wearing one kind glasses that had him looking like an old retired government secondary school principal in one of those remote villages.

The frame nor just fit am at all.

The thing was very oversize.

As in the glass frame big pass my daddy's small face.

My mum kept saying wow, see how you are looking so smart.

Omo!

Inside my mind, I was saying "yes make e dey go round like this."

This oversize ehn, everybody must collect!

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Lol....mehn the oversize then been mad oh..

school uniform wey Dem sew for me for primary1 na primary5 I reach the size..

shoe own na the worst them go pack paper and nylon put inside make person wear..

coat self be like canopy..

Hahahaha

Kuku kee me

Lol

this thread go be thread of a million laughs

Comedy!

I wish there was a 'donate button' on NL so that I could pay for the entertainment.

You mean I should send you my akant number make you send your laughing token?

I promise you, na suya and yogurt I go use am buy. No be my fault say the country be like this na

Hathor5:
Comedy!

I wish there was a 'donate button' on NL so that I could pay for the entertainment.

Buhahahahahahaha!! Comedy central

Op your mama na the MVP

My mummy always managed to buy the correct size for me and my sibs. I don't know how she did it but the sizes were always the right fit

Ishilove:
Buhahahahahahaha!! Comedy central

Op your mama na the MVP

My mummy always managed to buy the correct size for me and my sibs. I don't know how she did it but the sizes were always the right fit

There is nothing miraculous she did, she just bought the right sizes, not minding that you guys would outgrow them in 2 weeks and she would have to spend another money.

Kids grow very fast, so (Nigerian) parents intentionally buy them oversize dresses and shoes. They can buy the right size if they want to. You don’t see many rich kids or kids of celebrities with these problems. It is a money problem prevalent in lower-middle-class to poor homes.

Till today, I am very uncomfortable in fitted clothes. I grew up in oversized clothes and I am used to it. My feet is currently size 42, but I wear size 44 and sometimes manage size 43. I cannot wear a show that is my size, its makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like tight things. Even while growing up, only big aunties with big pusssies were fuccking me, so till today, I don't like tight pusssies.

One million salutation to my late grandma. I know she is eating and dinning with God

StreetFight:
Till today, I am very uncomfortable in fitted clothes. I grew up in oversized clothes and I am used to it. My feet is currently size 42, but I wear size 44 and sometimes manage size 43. I cannot wear a show that is my size, its makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like tight things. Even while growing up, only big aunties with big pusssies were fuccking me, so till today, I don't like tight pusssies.

One million salutation to my late grandma. I

know she is eating and dinning with God

Your case is spiritual

Oversized cloth, that was me In jss1 with my over sized skirt as school uniform and used it till jss3 and discarded it for them when it won't fade or become too short.

That was the last time I wore mandatory oversized cloth.

StreetFight:
Till today, I am very uncomfortable in fitted clothes. I grew up in oversized clothes and I am used to it. My feet is currently size 42, but I wear size 44 and sometimes manage size 43. I cannot wear a show that is my size, its makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like tight things. Even while growing up, only big aunties with big pusssies were fuccking me, so till today, I don't like tight pusssies.

One million salutation to my late grandma. I know she is eating and dinning with God

Too many crazy fellas here aswear.

Hahahaha this guyyy na my primary 1 school uniform vex me gan and popsy been wan snap me with im camera for morning, I no gree smile at all.

Damn Niggar!!!!!
The struggle is real

Haha, till Today my childhood Friends still call me herbalist because of the big big native kaftan my aunt used to sew for me Every xmas , Chai, person go just resemble baba ijebu on a day we are supposed celebrating the birth of Christ o.

African parents all use one manual, cant tell me otherwise.

No be small thing

I can't remember putting on an outrageous over sized cloth as a growing child.

I had a brother who felt that anytime my mom wants to buy clothes for him, she will forget her eyes at home.

He was always putting on extra large clothings for school, church and even casual wears.

In some of our pictures, he was always looking like a clown and I wonder how my mom was able to look at him those years and tell him how he looks like a governor's son in those clownish attires.

Omo i dey always shed tears wen mumsi go buy suits(coats) for us,coats looking like agbada with enough foam for shoulder.I dey always see am like parachute.For the shoes area,abeg no go there,i no wan start to cry this monday morning.

gfon:
Omo i dey always shed tears wen mumsi go buy suits(coats) for us,coats looking like agbada with enough foam for shoulder.I dey always see am like parachute.For the shoes area,abeg no go there,i no wan start to cry this monday morning.

hbemigho:
You mean I should send you my akant number make you send your laughing token?

I promise you, na suya and yogurt I go use am buy. No be my fault say the country be like this na

1F30M4:
Hahahaha this guyyy na my primary 1 school uniform vex me gan and popsy been wan snap me with im camera for morning, I no gree smile at all.

You come dey vex for camera

gfon:
Omo i dey always shed tears wen mumsi go buy suits(coats) for us,coats looking like agbada with enough foam for shoulder.I dey always see am like parachute.For the shoes area,abeg no go there,i no wan start to cry this monday morning.

Dead Parachute aye

Anytime my mama want buy shoe or clothes she deh always buy the ones weh go size me in 2yrs time.
"You too fine" "Olu gbajie girls" all na hype.


Na when I deh SS1 she go buy pams for me buy my size and I no follow am go market oh...

So this woman sabi my size since come deh whine me...

StreetFight:
Till today, I am very uncomfortable in fitted clothes. I grew up in oversized clothes and I am used to it. My feet is currently size 42, but I wear size 44 and sometimes manage size 43. I cannot wear a show that is my size, its makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like tight things. Even while growing up, only big aunties with big pusssies were fuccking me, so till today, I don't like tight pusssies.

One million salutation to my late grandma. I know she is eating and dinning with God

Somebody bring chain asap!

I like fitted clothes and that's what I buy my kids. When I say their age while buying, the sellers will start telling me to choose the bigger size and fold it. Eg the trousers.
So when they now get to that age, the cloth already looks worn-out and faded. Mbanu!

But it is painful cos they grow really quick and in less than 7 maths I'm back to buy another one. My saving grace is that they are all the same sex so I'm jejely keeping it for the younger ones who will still wear it when it fits them exactly.

gfon:
Omo i dey always shed tears wen mumsi go buy suits(coats) for us,coats looking like agbada with enough foam for shoulder.I dey always see am like parachute.For the shoes area,abeg no go there,i no wan start to cry this monday morning.

I Don laugh tire this morning. My mom once bought me the one that hands like akupe(hand fan). My elder bro taunted me regularly asking me if the trumpet had sounded and mom was getting me ready to fly to heaven. I used to cry each time she brought it out.One Sunday I vowed never to go to church again and always stayed back home until she got tired and bought new ones.

Omoh na my popsy dey do that for me oh. Iswr my Dad bought cloth for me since 2014,na now the cloth just dey fit me after I don abandoned the cloth. I even vex dash am out of the cloth sef,make he feel my pain too