There is this slogan that we Nigerian love saying " Wahala dey sleep, monkey dey go wake am up", I don't know if anyone understands what that says but it means that "Problem do not go to look for people, people go to look for problem and at the end of the day, can not withstand what they will see."
I don't think it is possible for anyone to stay in this world without wahala because one thing I have realized is that if we are not the ones going to look for this wahala, someone out there may always look for a way to bring wahala down to our doorstep but one thing I am sure of is that, there are some wahala that can be avoided not just because we don't want it but for our ourselves, for our peace and sanity.
I don't think there is an end to wahala, every day we wake up to solve one wahala, and funny enough, another wahala comes knocking on our day, and just so we know, there are people in this world whose joy is seeing people put in a fixed state, their joy is in creating an unending list of wahala for others to solve but then there is a way to avoid this wahala from getting to you and that is by staying away from these set of people as much as you can.
I am one person who hates wahala, I don't enjoy bad encounters nor do I enjoy exchanging words with people because it drains me of my strength but at the same time, I wouldn't mind giving it to someone squarely or "back to back" like we Nigerians say, if I feel that the person deserves to hear a little bit of me.
So, this particular day, I decided to board a tricycle down to my destination instead of just trekking, and so before I got in, I told the driver the particular place I will be stopping as I didn't have the energy to trek down to the place and he accepted and called his price to which I accept because I knew that was the normal price but along the way even before we got to my destination, the driver stopped and asked me to pay him our agreed price that he was no longer going. I was perplexed because I did not expect such an outburst from him when I tried to find out what the problem was and why I should pay him the agreed price when he isn't even close to my destination.
Like any Nigerian man who doesn't have respect for ladies, he started calling me names because I refused and said I was going to pay him the agreed amount of money or else he is going to disgrace me, wow, I was speechless and was like who does this?
I felt he thought I was a non-indigene and decided to play cool with him so we can settle the whole issue amicably but he wasn't reasoning straight like I had expected a mature man to do, so I gave up trying to be a cool lady or behaving in a ladylike manner like the world expects a lady to be.
When he realized I wasn't a novice and was an indigene, he began thinking straight and I saw how he became calm but then, I wasn't going to stop until I was sure, I had given him a piece of my mind.
Good enough a young man approaches us and enquired what the noise was all about. The driver told him the story leaving the part where he insulted me and reaped me of the money he doesn't deserve and the young man also turned to me before my side of the story which I gladly told him from the beginning where the tricycle driver picked me and how he behaved at the end and even asked for the agreed amount of money even when he did not take me to my destination. I was surprised to see the young man's change of attitude towards the driver as he almost hit the man, he stopped a tricycle for me and asked me to board it without paying the driver because of his bad attitude.
His scolding attracted a lot of attention our way and people began to ask what the problem was. I had no option but to tell them, and everyone who heard the story was disappointed in the man because he seems old enough to be my father but behaved badly.
When the man realized that nobody was on his side, he apologized and I gave him his money and boarded another tricycle down to my destination.
The truth is, wahala no dey finish, but we have to stay away from wahala to avoid putting ourselves into more shit.
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