**April 16-21**
*Bus
Sleeping
This is my new habit. I
sleep so much in the bus. Morning oo…night
oo. To me, it is a way of making up
for the hours of sleep that I have missed.
When you sleep in a
public bus (in Lagos gan gan), you’ll
have to make sure that your bag and other precious belongings is held tight to
your grip.
So last week, I entered a
white bus and slept in the middle of the journey. Somewhere along the line, I
received a tap on my right hand. It was the passenger sitting directly beside
me.
‘I just wanted to let you
know that we’re already in Ikorodu’. He said.
*Ikorodu
ke?*
I looked outside and
noticed that we’ve not gotten to the final bus-stop.
‘Yes, we’re at Ajegunle. I don’t want you to sleep
off’. He concluded.
*sighs
and roll eyes*
Yes, I know he was being
really nice but Ajegunle was like an
hour journey to the main bus-stop. Why would he prevent me from enjoying my
sleep?
I tried to keep away for
sometime but still slept off before alighting from the bus. I couldn’t sleep
really deep because I was very aware of my surroundings.
The man? He got down in a
bus-stop before mine.
*bent
neck
Ever since I started the full-time
job of sitting and facing the computer for almost half of the day, I’ve been
facing this neck issue…coupled with bad sleeping posture and bad habit of
sleeping in the bus.
So, I arrived home really
late at night with this badly aching neck. My dad had to notice…he needed to
notice…he needed to ask what was wrong with me and how I fared. He needed to
talk a balm and massage my neck or rather still, console his lovely daughter
with ‘sorry’.
I bent my neck
immediately I entered the gate. He had to notice and ask what was wrong with
me. I kept it bent till I got inside…only to find out that my dad had gone to
his room.
*Oopsie*
*scrunches up the face*
Effort for nothing…I straightened it back to
normal and faced my pain.
*tiredness (The trouble maker)
I got home one-night last
week and I was pretty pretty tired. I
couldn’t even eat or pray. I just laid on the mat and rested.
Little sis placed a
dictionary and a book beside me and was reading a page in the dictionary. I
laid beside her, placing the belt of my gown on the page she read.
She chuckled lightly,
wondering how amazing and troublesome her sister is (me of course). As tired as
I was, I still had the time to disturb her by placing my belt on the page she
read.
I told her to serve my
food and she placed it beside me.
“Me I am going to sleep oo”. She said, leaving for her room.
I was determined to eat
and pray but the weakness was too much. I decided to sleep for a little while
before eating and sleeping. I woke by 1am and the food was still lying beside
me. Ants had filled it and tried to stand and change. I fell asleep again and
woke by 4 am. I heard my dad’s toilet door sound and told myself that I won’t
go inside. He must come out and see me in the living room.
I placed the food in the
kitchen, changed my outfits, left the lights till switched on and returned to
sleeping on the mat…till dad comes out.
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