A Rough Day

What you're about to read is a true life story, well I'm sure you must have known that, also many or few people will be able to relate with this.

I study in the northern part of my country, in most country the north is most cold place in the country but my country has proof this theory wrong because it has two kind of weather that are always extreme when its their season. The hot time and the cold time, my country "Nigeria " isn't a snow falling country but when its the cold season, we dress like those in the snow falling country because the cold is always extreme. When you want to take your bath, you have to boil water cause we don't have hot water running from our tap, so we have to boil water and take your bath immediately if not, the water your boil hot will get cold after 15minute.

But that's not were I'm going, we are in the hot season now, and the heat is highly extreme this year.

I woke up this morning very tired and stressed, I stood up from the bed around 9am, the tap already stop running water because we couldn't buy water into the tank, yes, we do buy water and get it pumped into the tank, recently the people supplying us water decided to increase the fee due to the scarcity of fuel in the country, we do buy water at $6 before but now the price that was given to us was $12, that's double the price we do buy it before so we gave up on buying water and decided to fetch it. I went out to get water from the well.

Well- a deep pit with water at the bottom.

I got to the closest to the house, due to the hot and dry weather, the well was dry, no water in it, I was shocked, I decided to move further away from my place in search of water, the second well was locked, the third one, I couldn't only fetch water mixed with sand, I was beginning to feel frustrated, then a woman advised me to go to a particular location where there is a borehole.

Borehole- a modernized machine that has to do with one moving the leverage up and down before water can come out from the tap.

The place was so far but I decided to go since I will be traveling to my parent place tomorrow, when I got to the location, the number of people I met there was so much and they were on queue, if I was to count, I would be the 56th person to get to the borehole, I had to wait for 2hrs because some people brought 5bucket to fetch water while I went with only 2bucket.

After I fetch my water, I walked a very long way back home, before I got home, half of the water had dried up already😫😭😫, I had to manage the water to bath, cook and keep for other use.

I stepped out of the house, board a taxi, got to my destination and paid the driver but he refuse to give me my change, he said the price to the destination I was going had change, I was like " so why didn't you tell me when I entered" I enter the taxi and refuse to come down until I was given my change, the driver started driving, and I was screaming at the top of my voice like a passenger that was being kidnapped, the driver pack and we had a hot argument, other taxi drier started to pack to ask what was wrong, I explained but to my surprise they all supported the driver. He dropped me at a wrong location and drove off without giving me my change, now I had to enter another taxi back to the place I was actually going.

I was really sad and worried, immediately I saw my crush, all my worries and sad faded away, we had a long talk and it was getting late, I offered to walk her home but she said she wasn't going home. I asked where she was going and she said she was going to Daniel's house, my rival, I wasn't comfortable again, "Daniels house?? To do what? Its late already, why don't you want to go home?" Her response was "I dont want to sleep alone at home" 🙄😮💔💔,

another heartbreak for me, I got to know she had been sleeping in Daniel place for a while now. As at that moment she was talking to me, it was just going through my left ear and coming out from the right. I went back home with a heartbreak and more determination to leave the city back to my parent place. I wish myself a save journey tomorrow.

Thanks for reading, all image used are from unsplash.com.

Don't forget the Normal follow up for what next happens when I get home, my mom said she has a lot of gist for me.😀😊

Article title: A rough day
Date: 03/02/2022
Author: FashTioluwa