I walked in to the Hall, scared and all jittery.
Would they notice it? It wasn't my fault anyway.
I had just been dropped at the venue. It was the front of an hotel as expected. Beautiful, well designed and locally decorated with a local cuisine just in front. Before I could turn from paying off the Bike rider, I got a smoosh smash splash on my face and whole body.
"I'm sorry ma, I didn't know you were there" Came the words from a grumpy looking short and somewhat dirty woman. Her hair was unkempt and her legs were as though she hadn't had a bath in years.
The bowl on her hands were now empty, after she had emptied them on my white long dress.
I immediately lost confidence, going back would take another one hour and before I would return, I would be late for the slated interview which seemed like my last hope on getting a job. Heaven knows how hard it have worked to even get a slot to be interviewed 😢
Looking at how tattered the woman looked, I don't think I would even be able to wear any of her wears.
She kept apologizing and I was fixated, crying wouldn't help so I held still instead. This is the work of the devil, I said to myself as I walked after her following her very fragile graze as she led me to a tap where I could wash off the dirt off my face and body.
The mixture of Ogbono, Egusi and Bitter leaf soup on my body made me almost want to eat up my shirt as I had left home hungry.
I tried as much as possible to wash off the stain from my body but the stench remained.
I was hurt, angry and embarrassed but I walked in still into the Hall with heads bowed down like I had committed a big crime.
As I got in, I saw about 6 other persons who were obviously there for the same reason as me all fixing their gaze on me.
They would probably have thought me to be a mad man like the man at the gate did until I explained my ordeal to him.
I could feel the mirage of questions going through their mind but I didn't care.
All that mattered to me was how to convince the interviewers how the Eba I had supposedly eaten had danced all the way to my shirt making headline news already.
