This is not a movie, a stage play or a novel…….but a true life story

On a cool Tuesday evening, I found out my mobile phone was missing while driving home from work. I halted the car and searched everywhere I could think of in the car. I went as far as the boot, and also ransacked my bag, all to no avail.
I got back inside my car, and I took some time to think about the last place I used the phone, but I just couldn’t remember a thing. It was like my memory went blank. I then decided head home, and when I got home, I used the house phone to call my missing mobile phone. It rang severally to my reprieve, but no one was answering. Somehow, I knew the phone must be somewhere. I just needed to think fast as to where, and when I last used the phone.

I drove back to where I packed my car earlier before close of work, checked the surroundings but didn’t find it. I tried calling again when I returned home, but this time the call wasn’t going through. So, my guess was that the battery must have run down or someone must have found it and turned it off.

In order not to bore you with my long story, I misplaced the phone on a Tuesday evening, but guess what. On Friday afternoon (3 days later), I got a message from a friend (a colleague) who knew about my missing phone, telling me to come around as someone found my phone and wants to give it back to me.

The guy who found my phone that Friday afternoon, was on his way out, and as he was about entering his car, he sighted a phone on top of his car. He said at first, he was thinking ‘who must have kept this phone here’, he looked around but he didn’t see anyone, picking up the phone he noticed the battery was dead, He charged it a little, switched it on, and called the last number on the phone which coincidentally is my friend’s number. My friend confirmed that the phone belonged to someone he knows (me), and that the phone has been missing for 3days. Apparently this guy’s car was parked beside mine that fateful Tuesday and I guess I must have dropped it on his car while trying to put some other stuffs into my car without remembering to pick it up

Now the Intriguing part………….………The phone has been on top of that car for 3 days while he drove everywhere, parked in several places and it was still intact…. I was shocked, and beyond words but grateful that I finally found my phone.
Indeed Miracles abound
Now my life is a movie!!!!!!


***Picture of the exact spot on his car where the phone was found is attached***

This is not a movie, a stage play or a novel…….but a true life story

On a cool Tuesday evening, I found out my mobile phone was missing while driving home from work. I halted the car and searched everywhere I could think of in the car. I went as far as the boot, and also ransacked my bag, all to no avail.
I got back inside my car, and I took some time to think about the last place I used the phone, but I just couldn’t remember a thing. It was like my memory went blank. I then decided head home, and when I got home, I used the house phone to call my missing mobile phone. It rang severally to my reprieve, but no one was answering. Somehow, I knew the phone must be somewhere. I just needed to think fast as to where, and when I last used the phone.

I drove back to where I packed my car earlier before close of work, checked the surroundings but didn’t find it. I tried calling again when I returned home, but this time the call wasn’t going through. So, my guess was that the battery must have run down or someone must have found it and turned it off.

In order not to bore you with my long story, I misplaced the phone on a Tuesday evening, but guess what. On Friday afternoon (3 days later), I got a message from a friend (a colleague) who knew about my missing phone, telling me to come around as someone found my phone and wants to give it back to me.

The guy who found my phone that Friday afternoon, was on his way out, and as he was about entering his car, he sighted a phone on top of his car. He said at first, he was thinking ‘who must have kept this phone here’, he looked around but he didn’t see anyone, picking up the phone he noticed the battery was dead, He charged it a little, switched it on, and called the last number on the phone which coincidentally is my friend’s number. My friend confirmed that the phone belonged to someone he knows (me), and that the phone has been missing for 3days. Apparently this guy’s car was parked beside mine that fateful Tuesday and I guess I must have dropped it on his car while trying to put some other stuffs into my car without remembering to pick it up

Now the Intriguing part………….………The phone has been on top of that car for 3 days while he drove everywhere, parked in several places and it was still intact…. I was shocked, and beyond words but grateful that I finally found my phone.
Indeed Miracles abound
Now my life is a movie!!!!!!


***Picture of the exact spot on his car where the phone was found is attached***

The rate at which short codes have taken over our writing skills, especially that of the youth, the future leaders of tomorrow is alarming. Everyone, including myself see it as a shorter and faster way of writing. Off course it is, I concur. But of recent I have come to realise that even the simplest of words is abbreviated. Thus, leading me to come to the conclusion that we are becoming too lazy, so much that spelling out our words completely, and correctly is too much of a burden.

Been ruminating over this trend for a while now and I feel its high time we put this into check.

For instance; I write to someone stating that I may not be able to make it for a proposed get together and I get this response 'k' or ‘kkk’, and I’m wondering the time spent in writing so many 'k’s' can actually be spared by just writing ‘Okay’. Don’t you think so?

I can go on and on with so many examples but we all know them, we come across them every day. It’s becoming the norm and its even like a disease if you do not use short codes when writing.

Trust me! It takes a conscious effort to minimise its usage or even stop using them completely but it’s worth it. I am certain that in the long run, some of us may even forget how to spell the words correctly or even mistakenly use them to answers questions during examination.

Prevention they say is better than cure. For the younger generation, we know they tend to pick up things quickly, so we must act now by showing good examples. Here’s the teaser: How do we begin to teach them the right things if we don’t imbibe them now?

Let us all make the effort and say to ourselves ‘I won’t be using these short codes anymore except off course when necessary’.

I can, You can; Yhu cn (lol)! We know what’s right

Cheers

You are so right!!

Ngo40:
Well said....
There is nothing more beautiful and attractive (besides a person truly being "sold-out" to Christ) than a person who has integrity (regardless of the situation) .....
Those kind can only come from God......
May I be that myself....

So my hubby introduced me to one of his female friends. In his usual manner he didn’t tell me what to look out for in her. Yes! He always allow me to discover peoples character myself and determine if I want to be friends with them.You know the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”

Back to the lady, when I first met her, I thought yeah!!!! She seems nice, cool and all that. I think I kinda bonded with her. We even exchanged contacts.

Two days afterwards, I saw a request for a Whatsapp group named “The Paul’s”, by the way that’s my hubby’s name. I was kinda taken aback as to why my hubby would be creating a group for us, but then deep down I knew it was highly unlikely.

I accepted the request and alas! When I scrolled down to check the group admin it was this lady, and the group members were myself, my hubby and her….Interesting!!! right?

Anyways I waited for my hubby to arrive from work, and we both talked about this so called new Whatsapp group, and had a good laugh about it not without a glass of freshly made sugarcane juice though. We agreed to let things unfold since we couldn’t unravel the motive behind her actions, though we both knew that the idea was totally silly.

To cut the long story short, I realized overtime that she wasn’t sending any reasonable message. My hubby and I didn’t send either. The group was as good as useful, ironically. Prior to my exiting the group I needed her to help me with a new hairdo as a hairstylist for my kind of hair is hard to come by in my neighbourhood. So I sent a message through the group. She initially obliged, but later gave some flimsy excuse, not even to me on the so called ‘group’, but to my hubby when their paths crossed, and this was weeks after she had said yes to my request.

Lo and behold! the day finally came. I sat down one sunny afternoon, took my phone, went to Whatsapp, and left the group, my hubby did the same and off course we all know who will be left by herself to her group that’s if she doesn’t end up deleting it. That was the last time I heard from her.

Looking back to this incident, so many questions flooded my mind.

Why would a female friend create a Whatsapp group for two newly married, mature couples?

What is the motive behind it?

I guess I will never know!!!!

What I do know is that there is no space for intruders or third party as it is called

What do you think??

Caustics:
this piece put tears in ma eyes. I just gave a begger my atm card and pin to withdraw all he likes. Sobs
its good to be integrated

Are you for real?? or you have a hidden message?

akinrimisi:
nice writeup op, good business mind matters

Thank you my brother.. I have had my bad share of mechanics, to immediately spot a good one. I think integrity is like a perfume, it cant be hidden

In recent times when the word integrity is mentioned, it seems to me that a lot of people see it as something that isn’t applicable to this age. An author once defined Integrity as ‘something you do when no one else is looking.’ However, I once attended a seminar in which the speaker faulted this definition, and he went ahead to modify it as ‘something you do, when no one else is watching, especially if it costs you something’. For example, if you happen to pass by a lonely road, and see 1USD on the roadside, not taking it might not signify integrity, because perhaps that 1USD might not worth so much to you. But replace the 1USD with 10,000 USD, will you still overlook it and not take it? Now that cost you something, and this is where your integrity might be tested, according to the speaker

A recent incident has made me question my integrity. Can I do what I say? Practice what I preach? Be truthful even when the occasion says otherwise?

Straight to my story!

My husband’s (Mr P) car had a mechanical fault recently and he took it for repairs. He took it firstly to a nearby mechanic workshop, and after a thorough check it was suggested that he replaces his radiator with a new one. Upon hearing the cost, he decided to consult a friend who had the same problem and just got his car fixed. His friend directed him somewhere else and it was about the same price as the previous workshop. Lest I forget to mention I accompanied him to the 2nd mechanic work shop.

One thing struck me while he was talking and bargaining with the repairer; the guy said “Sir, the price of the radiator is 70USD and you know my charges is 10USD, but you see I am going to go buy the radiator straight from the manufacturing company, and because I am a mechanic I will be given a discount”. He said the exact amount and the balance that will be left after discount. He further went ahead to say that he will then use the balance to cover up for his own charges. So, he won’t be collecting any extra charges …… Hmmmm!! You said that too right?

It sent shivers down my spine……How can a mechanic be this truthful? Men like this are rare really. The average mechanic will rather tell you that the money won’t be enough, and even make you feel that they are doing you a big favour, whereas they would have made more than enough for themselves. Anyways I didn’t think twice I was going to affirm to my husband that the guy should go ahead with the repairs.
We all know this, its business, yes you need to make profit; things are expensive! really expensive, recession is hitting hard etc. Albeit, amidst all this, you can still make your profit by been truthful and not necessarily going overboard to rip your customers pocket.

That mechanic certainly has a customer in me, not that I pray that I have car issues anymore, but I will give him referrals whenever.
Integrity will not kill your business or you, rather it will save, sustain, and grow your business

Integrity is not old fashioned, it is very fashionable

Embrace Integrity

In recent times when the word integrity is mentioned, it seems to me that a lot of people see it as something that isn’t applicable to this age. An author once defined Integrity as ‘something you do when no one else is looking.’ However, I once attended a seminar in which the speaker faulted this definition, and he went ahead to modify it as ‘something you do, when no one else is watching, especially if it costs you something’. For example, if you happen to pass by a lonely road, and see 1USD on the roadside, not taking it might not signify integrity, because perhaps that 1USD might not worth so much to you. But replace the 1USD with 10,000 USD, will you still overlook it and not take it? Now that cost you something, and this is where your integrity might be tested, according to the speaker

A recent incident has made me question my integrity. Can I do what I say? Practice what I preach? Be truthful even when the occasion says otherwise?

Straight to my story!

My husband’s (Mr P) car had a mechanical fault recently and he took it for repairs. He took it firstly to a nearby mechanic workshop, and after a thorough check it was suggested that he replaces his radiator with a new one. Upon hearing the cost, he decided to consult a friend who had the same problem and just got his car fixed. His friend directed him somewhere else and it was about the same price as the previous workshop. Lest I forget to mention I accompanied him to the 2nd mechanic work shop.

One thing struck me while he was talking and bargaining with the repairer; the guy said “Sir, the price of the radiator is 70USD and you know my charges is 10USD, but you see I am going to go buy the radiator straight from the manufacturing company, and because I am a mechanic I will be given a discount”. He said the exact amount and the balance that will be left after discount. He further went ahead to say that he will then use the balance to cover up for his own charges. So, he won’t be collecting any extra charges …… Hmmmm!! You said that too right?

It sent shivers down my spine……How can a mechanic be this truthful? Men like this are rare really. The average mechanic will rather tell you that the money won’t be enough, and even make you feel that they are doing you a big favour, whereas they would have made more than enough for themselves. Anyways I didn’t think twice I was going to affirm to my husband that the guy should go ahead with the repairs.
We all know this, its business, yes you need to make profit; things are expensive! really expensive, recession is hitting hard etc. Albeit, amidst all this, you can still make your profit by been truthful and not necessarily going overboard to rip your customers pocket.

That mechanic certainly has a customer in me, not that I pray that I have car issues anymore, but I will give him referrals whenever.
Integrity will not kill your business or you, rather it will save, sustain, and grow your business

Integrity is not old fashioned, it is very fashionable

Embrace Integrity

So my hubby introduced me to one of his female friends. In his usual manner he didn’t tell me what to look out for in her. Yes! He always allow me to discover peoples character myself and determine if I want to be friends with them.You know the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”

Back to the lady, when I first met her, I thought yeah!!!! She seems nice, cool and all that. I think I kinda bonded with her. We even exchanged contacts.

Two days afterwards, I saw a request for a Whatsapp group named “The Paul’s”, by the way that’s my hubby’s name. I was kinda taken aback as to why my hubby would be creating a group for us, but then deep down I knew it was highly unlikely.

I accepted the request and alas! When I scrolled down to check the group admin it was this lady, and the group members were myself, my hubby and her….Interesting!!! right?

Anyways I waited for my hubby to arrive from work, and we both talked about this so called new Whatsapp group, and had a good laugh about it not without a glass of freshly made sugarcane juice though. We agreed to let things unfold since we couldn’t unravel the motive behind her actions, though we both knew that the idea was totally silly.

To cut the long story short, I realized overtime that she wasn’t sending any reasonable message. My hubby and I didn’t send either. The group was as good as useful, ironically. Prior to my exiting the group I needed her to help me with a new hairdo as a hairstylist for my kind of hair is hard to come by in my neighbourhood. So I sent a message through the group. She initially obliged, but later gave some flimsy excuse, not even to me on the so called ‘group’, but to my hubby when their paths crossed, and this was weeks after she had said yes to my request.

Lo and behold! the day finally came. I sat down one sunny afternoon, took my phone, went to Whatsapp, and left the group, my hubby did the same and off course we all know who will be left by herself to her group that’s if she doesn’t end up deleting it. That was the last time I heard from her.

Looking back to this incident, so many questions flooded my mind.

Why would a female friend create a Whatsapp group for two newly married, mature couples?

What is the motive behind it?

I guess I will never know!!!!

What I do know is that there is no space for intruders or third party as it is called

What do you think?? Well, till I hear your thoughts let me sip my glass of zobo drink