During our childhood, there were so many things that we thought we did right that were actually wrong, I remember then when our parents gave us tasks to do, sometimes we would be grumpy to do them, unknown to us that we were actually doing more harm than good to ourselves.
One instance in my childhood stands out so much that I don't think I will ever forget about it when this incident happened and the after effect of it is quite hilarious when I think about it and that is why our parents would tell us to always listen to instructions and to do the right things at the right time.
That day my mom had gone out for her daily business, she was into pastry selling, she usually did them herself so we always had enough to eat whenever we wanted. That day she told us to get something to cook, and I looked at myself and then at my sister, each of us using our eyes to tell each other that it was the other who should follow her to get the things to cook, well after an hour that morning nothing was done and that made my mom punish us and we didn't have anything to eat that afternoon, but you know there was pastry, we didn't mind we are that and continued with our playing.
My mom came back and complained about our not listening to her and we used it to affect her because she was hungry when she came back from her business and as we were preparing to cook, the power supply came on, Omo, opportunity has come, I said in mind, well my mom had other plans for us, and so she asked I and my sister to go out and get garri, and because there was a movie that we bought the CD the day before, and I wanted to finish it, before I went on the errand I quickly a slot in the Disc in the CD player and allowed the movie to play, thinking that it would get to the place we stopped at before we came back.
Omo, we came back o and as I predicted the movie was playing at the spot we were at and that was where my eyes were, unknown to me that my mom had poured boiling water that was supposed to be used to make the Garrri, my attention was diverted to the movie and when she asked me to bring the Garri to her, I became the Garri, because I wasn't looking at where I was going to and that was how I stepped in the hot water in the bowl.
It just wasn't funny that day because, with the burns from the hot water, my mom still beat me for not paying attention to the errand she sent me and I ended up being in more trouble. Nigerian mothers we hail thee
So this made my parent ground us all from watching TV for a whole month and my burn scars prevented me from attending school for a week and the most annoying part was that there was no TV to watch *to hold body.
So since that time we always made sure to listen to our parents and also to go on errands we were sent to on time, so that we wouldn't be punished, that period, my sisters bullied me for being the cause of not having TV to watch for that week. Even I myself felt bad about everything, now thinking back at everything that happened, I would just laugh.
