I saw the challenge from @George_Dee and I decided to join because my mom gave me a lot of shockers in my life which am going to share some of it right now
Firstly let me tell you something about my mom, I always call her "iyabeji" English (mum twins) because she gave birth to twins and I am (Idowu) the third of twin and I have my junior sister (Alaba) the fourth of the twin that's how we count it here in Nigeria.
My mum should be called a disciplinary officer because she's just too strict when it comes to training children, sometimes I always think maybe she's not our mother because of the way she handled us with iron hands, lol π€£ a "woman of steel" that's what I and my siblings call her at her back, enough of her because am sure you will be wondering what kind of shockers she must have given me that makes me feel this way, though I was a stubborn child as well still I wasn't expecting so much punishment from my Mom.
When I was in secondary school, I have this friend called funmi she likes me so much though she's older than me, we met at a computer school where my mom enrolled me so that I won't be playing too much in the street and she doesn't want me to have time for guys, even my junior sister was enrolled for tailoring as well,
My first day at the computer school it was me and funmi that came the same day and she's no more in secondary school while am still in secondary school but she likes me just the way I am, and one more thing that makes her like me is because I grabbed things easily than her so I always teach her later
We became so close to the extent that I always go to her house after we finish computer school, I have been doing this for quite a long time and my mom keeps wondering what always kept me at work so late, I call it work because am still school.
So one day our teacher ask us to go home as early as 6pm and she went out but I and funmi left the school around 4pm because we have so many places to touch before going home, meanwhile, my mom was waiting for me to come late so that she can give me some sugarcane, hehehehe π don't get it twisted the sugarcane am talking about is actually cane(real beating), so she waited for so long I didn't come home
When it was 9pm she just saw someone walking so tired towards her and then she stood up and ask: where are you coming from ID? That's how she calls my name, then I was like from work now and she said I was at your work today around 6pm so where have you been?.
Trust me at that moment my spirit has already bounced out of my body because it won't be good for two of us to get hurt, I mean me and my spirit, and then she said "go inside" then I began to beg for mercy and our neighbors gathered together to beg for me.
I escaped sugarcane that night that wasn't the shocker, another beautiful day again she left us a message with one of our neighbors, that she will be doing overnight at work because she's a native nurse, guess what all of us were so happy eh because seeing her face alone is like fire from hell, so everyone thinks today we are going to enjoy ourselves to the fullest.
Then I invited funmi over to our house and we were there gisting, laughing and eating snacks as well because I do not go to computer school that day thinking that my mom is not at home, then nobody will beat me for anything.
Then we just heard the door opens and I and funmi asked: who is that? and when we got to the passage it was my mom then I realized am just walking dead this moment, but she surprised me because she didn't beat me or my friend, but she gave my friend and said: I will teach you a lesson you will never forget in your life and my mind started to raise up and down because I know what she's capable of doing.
She just went inside and packs lots of clothes and gave us soap to be washing it since we failed to go to school, she now said to my friend so you are the one taking my little girl out right? Since your mother didn't teach you then I will.
She gave funmi truck of clothes and the girl couldn't say no or run away so she began to wash and wash until 9pm then my mom said to her when you get home and your mother beats you today you won't come here to teach my girl how to walk all around the street again, I was shocked and I looked at her again thinking that how could she do this? She's just a girl like me and not a guy, if not I would have said I deserve it, but what can I do to her? Nothing because she's just trying to teach me so morals that will be useful to me in the future, but then I never knew.
Ever since then funmi never steps her foot into our compound again and I never stayed out late again because I don't want my mom to kill me with a cane
My mom is so strong and strict she's just like a man
I think this traits is general in African mothers. God created them special π€£π€£π€£π€£