In the Cafeteria

Hey Nigerian Guy, this is a funny story that happened to a friend of mine in school that makes me laugh whenever I remember.

I have this friend and he likes food too much. He’s always going to the cafeteria and he’s always collecting more than a pack, always begging people for meal ticket which was just absolutely disgusting. There are three classes of students: class one (those who never went to the cafeteria), Class two (those who go to the cafeteria when a good meal is involved) and Class three ( those who eat anything).

I must confess I was in class two and like the band wagon effect, I flowed with class two. This my guy was just a disgrace. We dey always warn am to stop. Like on Monday afternoons, the served meal is rice but you have to choose between moimoi and salad, you are entitled to choose only one but this my guy go always collect the two. The moimoi and salad were served at two different points and if you wanted the moimoi, you will display your food that you hadn’t gotten the salad so my friend will take the moimoi first and put it inside his pocket (imagine) before taking the salad. To him he was smart.

On this fateful Saturday, this guy entered cafeteria and they made another mistake of another point after meal. This time it was cake, a soft drink and salad. My guy said ‘This is my chance!’ I was shocked and scared at the same time

My paddy went and collected the first one, then the second pack. ‘Guy e don do’ I said. ‘Leave me jare’ he said as he went for the third one not knowing one wicked indigene who was a worker in the cafeteria was looking at him.

‘Ole, Ole, Thief! Na 3 times you don go. God go punish you’ the woman began to scream. The whole school stopped to watch the scenario. It was just a disgrace.

I tried to be a good friend by not abandoning him as we still went to the hostel together but I took my ridiculing of him to another level afterwards……He had disgraced me a lot on top of food.