Field Marshal
Elder Lister
Just now, I've walked into the Capital Hill police canteen to eat some fish-ugali with my last 300. When short of money, always eat a good meal, it keeps depression away.
The canteen was basically empty.
Kwenda kukaa chini na huko nyuma naona mia tano imeanguka kwa floor. Nobody's around. I quickly pick it up and pocket it - I now have exactly 510 in my pockets.
Currently, I am extremely broke (when is the chair of the NBA ever liquid?). Just yesterday I contacted a Klist real mbirrionea for a small loan of 40k and he rebuffed me in the most unkind manner.
"Wewe nyang'au mzee umenizoea," he thundered satanically (!) through the phone "Ile loan ingine ya 70k umelipa?".
I just wished the ground could swallow me.
Any way, under normal circumstances I would have handed the 500 to somebody at the canteen. Perhaps it's a poor waiter that dropped it?
But 'poverty' is making me rationalize keeping it. What if it is a crooked cop that dropped it? What if it is god (!) who just saw that the armoured Wingroad is at amber and I only have 10 bob?
I am so conflicted coz - contrary to popular belief that every Kenyan is a thief - I never enjoy illicit loot or any money I have not genuinely earned. I eat my sweat, and the occasional alms thrown way through the NBA.
What to do now bonoboz?.I feel so guilty that I am still holding on to the money!
The canteen was basically empty.
Kwenda kukaa chini na huko nyuma naona mia tano imeanguka kwa floor. Nobody's around. I quickly pick it up and pocket it - I now have exactly 510 in my pockets.
Currently, I am extremely broke (when is the chair of the NBA ever liquid?). Just yesterday I contacted a Klist real mbirrionea for a small loan of 40k and he rebuffed me in the most unkind manner.
"Wewe nyang'au mzee umenizoea," he thundered satanically (!) through the phone "Ile loan ingine ya 70k umelipa?".
I just wished the ground could swallow me.
Any way, under normal circumstances I would have handed the 500 to somebody at the canteen. Perhaps it's a poor waiter that dropped it?
But 'poverty' is making me rationalize keeping it. What if it is a crooked cop that dropped it? What if it is god (!) who just saw that the armoured Wingroad is at amber and I only have 10 bob?
I am so conflicted coz - contrary to popular belief that every Kenyan is a thief - I never enjoy illicit loot or any money I have not genuinely earned. I eat my sweat, and the occasional alms thrown way through the NBA.
What to do now bonoboz?.I feel so guilty that I am still holding on to the money!