Friday Special Story. Read! Title:The Amala Wahala Mama Iyabo’s amala and gbegiri,every guy and even the so called Big girls around the campus are quite familiar with this name. Her food was so delicious I once pictured her canteen as a chemistry lab, Mama Iyabo been the Scientist, in her lab coat mixing the right quantity of recipes in a test tube to get the desired mole of gbegiri soup. I woke up very late that day, after having read all night.It was the final exam of my 200 level. I opened my fridge to check if my roommate, Segun left anything edible in the fridge,as expected nothing was left. It was a common thing then in the university during last week of exams for most guys to go very broke. So I was going for exams for the second day on an empty stomach. With the little hope I had left, I went to my wardrobe to dig my pockets for money I might have forgotten there. I searched thoroughly but found nothing, not even a penny, I was repacking my clothes back when something fell from my trouser. It was a 500 naira note, it fell from my old pair of jeans I last wore to a friend’s party. I was so excited, picked it up and unfolded it .In my head,I had already calculated how many meats and wraps of amala I could get with this money. I had my bath and dashed for school. In the exam hall all I could think about was Iya iyabo’s amala. Well, I managed to summon my mind back to the exam hall to finish the paper. Immediately after the exam, I ran to get my food flask and went straight to Mama Iyabo’s canteen which was a closeby shop made from aluminium roofing. As usual, the queue was long with lecturers, student and the so called campus big boys, all standing in the queue, waiting impatiently with their food flasks. This was the only place where such equality was possible. After waiting for like 30 minutes it got to my turn. Today it was Mama Iyabo’s last daughter-Biola, serving the food. What a lucky day, I said to myself. My friends had always called Biola- my girlfriend, because she always add extra to my order. With her sweet smile she asked, How u dey? na as usual abi?( How are you? It’s your usual order right?) I smiled and replied “today different o”,give me 3 wraps of amala, 6 pieces of goat meat,shaki along with gbegiri . Continue readinggoo.gl/7LL9P9
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:07:34 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015