My Colorful week-#UgBloggers7Days

So day six and it’s a chill mode day at work and I am thinking I need to write something to lighten my 7day challenge.

Interesting taxi rides

You know how it’s a norm to sit in a taxi and they are blasting off some luganda radio station and all the presenters trying to be funny (because lets face it not all of them are funny). So yesterday I enter a taxi early morning all eager to pull out my headsets and block out anything for the next 20-minute ride to work. Ever to be shocked when they taxi was playing HOT 100 hot breakfast at like full volume ….yeah they were playing problems by Rocky Asap. Of course I was sure the taxi driver was going to change station but when I got off the taxi driver didn’t look like he was in a hurry to change stations. this gave me hope, soon enough English speaking stations will soon take over the taxi crowd. Or am I being too optimistic?  Do not judge a book by its cover! Lesson learned

 So mid this week a story run on one of the local TV stations about a child slowly eating itself! The child is about a year old and has chewed his big toe and there is worry he will shift to another toe. So as unfortunate as the story is,  trust Ugandans to make a comedy out of it. The mother walked out on the father of the child because she believes the cannibalistic tendencies from the child come from his clan. She was lamenting how she could end up with a child from a museezi clan and the guys’ relatives were not amused! The thing is it doesn’t matter who the child got the cannibalistic tendencies from, the child needs help and pointing fingers is not going to find a solution to the problem.

Thieving mothers.

We have always known that menopause for a woman is a hard time in life! Seeing as it happens after forty we can assume you are also under going a Midlife crisis! Where am I going with this? This week a group of women in there 40’s were captured on video going to supermarkets and STEALING! They come with clothes with extra storage material in their under garments and just steal. And it’s hard to suspect a motherly figure would do a thing like that because I mean she  is at that respectable age where we do not expect them to be stealing for a living. One of these ladies was captured and her excuse? She is a widow. As if she is the first one! Help us and deal with your mid-life crisis in another way because this thieving thing is just not the way to set an example for us who are yet to get there.

And finally at the age 64 Stevie Wonder is expecting triplets! The man was clearly sending a message that his talents go way beyond his genius music abilities! You have just given men another reason to push having kids to a later date! And for that I have beef.

Ruth Adong

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