How To Know That Your Estate is C And Below.
1.When borrowing stuff is the norm.Women borrow each other
shampoo,used weaves,clothes to wear to a ceremony,charger(ya meno
ndogo),curtlery and even unga-to add to their unga which is not enough
since they forgot to buy or grind maize.
2.The estate is full of bachelor’s who have a pass time of bringing
different girls to their houses.Very few or none are in steady
relationships.
3.Sharing of bathrooms and toilets.Even with two or three people
sharing a toilet,keeping it clean is a challenge.Misunderstandings arise
over who should clean and who dirtified them.
4.The families take their children to free parks and annual Ask shows
for recreation and fun.Churchil kids festival and going for swimming at
local hotels or buying pizza is a luxury parents can’t offer their
kids.
5.Children play with readily available material at the limited space
in the plot.They use broken pieces of wood,old car or bicycle
tyres(Mpara).If they use toys,they are the cheapest in the market.
6.When 96% of the children in the estate walk to the nearby public
schools.The remaining 4% attend overrated private schools that drill
learners and make them dependent on the teacher.They later score poorly
in high school.
7.Most women in the estate watch Afro-cinema,soap operas and local television programs.
8.Many wives in the estate are housewives.Few are self employed or
employed without formal training for the job and earn peanuts.
9.It’s difficult for a single lady to survive in the estate.She will
be accused of attempting to steal husbands or be treated as a
suspect-till she moves houses.
10.The landlord is tired of asking for his rent or rent arrears.He
has resorted to threatening to lock some doors_He ends up locking
several.
11.Tenants wash utencils from outside and leave them in the sun to
dry.They also bath their children from outside and ask them to stand in
the sun so that they can dry up.
12.The electricity bill is only known by the landlord or one tenant
tasked with taking the bill.The figure they arrive at is what each
tenant will pay,willingly or unwillingly.
13.The presence of a poshomill which grinds flour No 2 .
14.Many mama mbogas in the estate and vibanda hotel in the estate that sell cheap food and can offer credit.
15.When women in the estate do their hair at the saloon that the
saloonist let’s you wait since she knows you-Again you are almost done
and your house is just a stone throw away.
16.At the estate shops, we have men who play drafts all day and like arguing about Arsenal,Manchester and Chelsea.
17.The landlord insists that people should not light their jiko’s in
the house.He adds that when they turn off the stove,they should take it
outside so that the smoke doesn’t blacken the walls.
18.Few or no tenants have fridges,microwaves,blenders,rice cookers and pressure cookers.
19.One in every ten women go for pedicure,manicure and facial.It’s only that one woman who has acrylic nails.
20.It’s like people are short tempered in the estate.No one can explain why people querrel and fight constantly.
21.Some people hung clothes without pegs.Few hire the services of
mama nguo while the rest wonder why some people take their clothes to
the dry cleaners or buy a washing machine.
Monday, 18 April 2016
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