Culture is the people way of life. Yes, there’s no dispute to that.

There are some ancient cultural practice which our forefathers partook which some of us are still actively doing today but I strongly believed they’ve outlived their purposes or lemme put it like this; they’re aren’t relevant in these our times.

I’ll illustrate one with what happened to me this evening.

As I went to market to buy some tomatoes; holding the bag of tomatoes with my right hand I dipped inside my pocket with my left hand and handed the woman my money but to my surprise she vehemently rejected it saying I should use my right hand. Right hand that is holding a bag ooo

I maintained my ground that she should collect this money from me and hand me my balance besides I’m buying other things. She started cursing me with Yoruba and her neighbors joined her.

Finally she gave me my balance and I quietly left that area but I felt bad because of the curses those women were throwing at me even though I don’t understand Yoruba language. Even the Igbo people where I come from it’s still the same thing…

Though I’m not naturally left handed but I think we supposed to outgrow despising people giving or collecting something with left hand.

What other practice, customs and norms do you think it is irrelevant in these present times?

NB: The market women I engaged with this evening were not more than 50yrs… so it baffled me seeing younger generations towing this part…