budaatum:
Went to see ma yesterday Sunday, I was hungry, go suck ma tit. Ma's telling me I should be eating only vegetable like her. She said she never ate meat, not since she was young and used to wrap her meat in paper and hide it where ants would eat it, I should manage the small chicken she has. Took a while to remind ma she used to go stock up on cow leg and fuku and saki and edo and chicken legs and salmon heads at Dalston Market, that's what she calls it though it's actually Ridley Road Market. Ma would buy so much meat her freezer would be full she'd have nowhere to put it have to give us children.

I'm sending this to ma. It rightly crossed all we said! Let her know I too will eat only vegetables when I'm 80 like her.

Thank you oboy. 2 likes for you!

oboy81:
Now we move on to this woman.
She has a small local drugstore, provision store near where I stay. A 'chemist/nurse. Semi-illiterate woman in her mind 30s, married with three kids. She has like an older sister or something who is always with her in her shop. Don't know much about her really, just go there to buy some necessities, like soaps, toothpaste etc.
I remember i was there one day and a baby does some really funny stuff, I smile older sister compliments me " you have a nice smile oh, nice set of teeth God created you on a Sunday . Smile more for us you here." (Sister seems more educated) .
Now when you tell a depressed soil like me something like that, it hits you deep even if you may not realize it. I nod collect me things and go

Ileya day comes, everyone is slaughtering herbivores left right and centre. Oboy81 is on his is room, no-one gives a hoot (thats not necessarily a bad thing even, just the way things are for ppl like me here).
I get a knock on my door, small girl is here with a big plate of food says 'my aunty say i should give you'
Me? A hungry frustrated bastard, plenty white rice with two big meats? Chineke!
That's how we start greeting, then small-talking and laughing Had I known lol