...African mothers can be so dramatic...
I don't know if I should say this is one of the embarrassing moments of my life or one of the funny moments of my life...
so here's the thing....smiles
back in the days when I was a member of the choristers in my church... basically we hold lots of programmes and meetings on line.. you know ! like a zoom kinda thingy... on a usual note I don't participate on such occasions of having to be online to join the program I found it way more hilarious to be discussing our matters over the phone when we could probably set a physical meeting
in the year 2019, the COVID-19 period....
so we had this program that we had to go minister... considering the protocol of gatherings and all that... our coordinator had suggested that we held an online zoom meeting to decide on our clothing, song and definitely how we were going to go about it...
it was more like compulsory for everyone... before hand I'd planned I won't attend the program so I'd thought it was nice of me to join since I won't be present at the ministration...
the zoom kicked off at the exact time as said by the coordinator; he doesn't do African time. so I'd muted myself cause I knew I wasn't gonna say anything... the discussion went on and on until the said something about everyone having to be present and the penalty of not showing up...
so I unmuted my already muted self to object on the already raised topic...
just then I could hear my mum mumbling from outside my room. the next I heard and saw was my mum badging in without knocking and shouting all over the place. she'd said:
madam! why would you go about hanging your bra all over my clothes? to be exact on clothes that I just washed to dry... why is it that you don't hear word...when you want to hang stuff, find an empty space and do so. and this will be the last warning about you leaving your underwears anywhere you feel like... your father is in this house for christ sake...
damn! hearing this, I'd turn to go back to the meeting just then I'd realised that it was unmuted and they definitely heard that. so as I was about muting it, she had said the last sentence that made me freeze.
she'd said: I won't blame you . it's because you've grown and we both are wearing bra's.. show respect to the one that fed you first....🥲
jeez.... I felt like the earth should open and swallow me😫 and not showing my face till everyone is past it.
seriously, that day is one hell of a day I can't figure out if it was funny or embarrassing
well to keep things short, I didn't attend the program and I did pay penalty for not coming... last but not the least, i was teased about that for days... even up till date.. some of my friends who were ones a chorister like I was usually point that out to laugh at me.