Field Marshal
Elder Lister
It is what it is, this life.
Yo may have noticed that I have not been contributing as much as I should. Well, a chain of misfortunes have dogged me - from a health scare (curently going through some investigations), to a minor intercourse between the armoured Wingroad and a rogue lorry to Covid-related financial and social issues.
My old decrepit phones even got stolen, losing data/contacts I had accumulated over 4 years. (@Pamba 1 is there a way I can track these old phones without IMEIs if I give you the numbers I was using them with? Anyone?)
The latest hiccup I am facing is an old friend. Let's call him Bob. I want your advice about him.
I've known Bob for the last 40 years. We literally became adults together and have been absolutely good friends. Over the last two years, we have been catching drinks together at least 2 times a week.
One thing led to another (get your mind off the gutter @Cortedivoire) and about an year ago we became small business partners. I would want to pull a quick deal and he would often lend me the money to do it because my capital would be tied up elsewhere, for something like 7% pm.
Today, as I write this, I owe him Sh1.4m. It is a testament to our four decades of friendship that the debt is not written about anywhere - we trust each like that. He will get his money back as agreed to the last penny.
The problem now is, I am starting to think that my friend is starting to think of himself as my boss, or at the very least my superior. Kila saa tukicatch drinks nikunisomea under the very silliest of excuses as if he's my dad (RIP).
A few examples.
* I quarrel a little bit with a barman over a bill: Why are you behaving like a 19-year old. Huoni umezeeka? Mbona usikunywe pombe zako nne uende nyumbani? (He's an introvert, I am an extrovert, which is why he's always stressed and am a happy-go-lucky Guka).
* Wingroad has public sex with a lorry, which takes off because it was on the wrong: FMCP, hii carelessness yako itakuuwa. Act your age. You are not a Subaru boy (he knocked down a pedestrian four weeks ago, I didn't say anything).
* Phones get stolen: FMCP, I don't like the way you are doing things. Hauendi vizuri. You need to change your approach to life. Otherwise utakufa tuu. Oh, by the way, I remember four years ago bla bla mlikosana na................
No wonder hiyo siku nanii alitaka kukugonga na chupa.....
* We are catching a drink and then I think of calling a relative well-known to Bob ('Hey, I am catching WhiteKAPS with Bob, sambaza mbili tukunywe'): Honestly FMCP, do you have to call your relatives and tell them watutumie pesa ya kunywa? Ile tuko nayo tumemaliza?
ETC etc ad nauseum. It is now reaching a place I just want to pay his money and start avoiding him, but I also value the journey we have travelled. What the best way to handle this situation?
The Senate is a source of great wisdom.
Nipatieni mawaidha..........................as I sort out the other issues.
Yo may have noticed that I have not been contributing as much as I should. Well, a chain of misfortunes have dogged me - from a health scare (curently going through some investigations), to a minor intercourse between the armoured Wingroad and a rogue lorry to Covid-related financial and social issues.
My old decrepit phones even got stolen, losing data/contacts I had accumulated over 4 years. (@Pamba 1 is there a way I can track these old phones without IMEIs if I give you the numbers I was using them with? Anyone?)
The latest hiccup I am facing is an old friend. Let's call him Bob. I want your advice about him.
I've known Bob for the last 40 years. We literally became adults together and have been absolutely good friends. Over the last two years, we have been catching drinks together at least 2 times a week.
One thing led to another (get your mind off the gutter @Cortedivoire) and about an year ago we became small business partners. I would want to pull a quick deal and he would often lend me the money to do it because my capital would be tied up elsewhere, for something like 7% pm.
Today, as I write this, I owe him Sh1.4m. It is a testament to our four decades of friendship that the debt is not written about anywhere - we trust each like that. He will get his money back as agreed to the last penny.
The problem now is, I am starting to think that my friend is starting to think of himself as my boss, or at the very least my superior. Kila saa tukicatch drinks nikunisomea under the very silliest of excuses as if he's my dad (RIP).
A few examples.
* I quarrel a little bit with a barman over a bill: Why are you behaving like a 19-year old. Huoni umezeeka? Mbona usikunywe pombe zako nne uende nyumbani? (He's an introvert, I am an extrovert, which is why he's always stressed and am a happy-go-lucky Guka).
* Wingroad has public sex with a lorry, which takes off because it was on the wrong: FMCP, hii carelessness yako itakuuwa. Act your age. You are not a Subaru boy (he knocked down a pedestrian four weeks ago, I didn't say anything).
* Phones get stolen: FMCP, I don't like the way you are doing things. Hauendi vizuri. You need to change your approach to life. Otherwise utakufa tuu. Oh, by the way, I remember four years ago bla bla mlikosana na................
No wonder hiyo siku nanii alitaka kukugonga na chupa.....
* We are catching a drink and then I think of calling a relative well-known to Bob ('Hey, I am catching WhiteKAPS with Bob, sambaza mbili tukunywe'): Honestly FMCP, do you have to call your relatives and tell them watutumie pesa ya kunywa? Ile tuko nayo tumemaliza?
ETC etc ad nauseum. It is now reaching a place I just want to pay his money and start avoiding him, but I also value the journey we have travelled. What the best way to handle this situation?
The Senate is a source of great wisdom.
Nipatieni mawaidha..........................as I sort out the other issues.
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