@Mofif 16 November 2021

The H.P. Incidence

For those who don't know, the code name H.P. on campus stands for Hot plate.

My school is one of the 'special' ones out there. What I mean by that is they still don't allow hot plate, electric stove or even gas cylinders in the hall of residence. They expect us to be cooking with kerosene stove, can you imagine? In this time and age, so much for first and best. Almost all students complain about this. It isn't convenient to be cooking with a stove especially with the rising cost of kerosene. The price of kerosene increased by almost a 100% in this year alone. The fact that they expect students to bear this cost is still beyond me. This and coupled with the fact that they allow marketers within the school to sell it at whatever price they desire. No form of regulation at all.

Also, stoves are not an efficient form of heat generation as it takes time to cook food. This waste students time as they could be doing a lot of productive things. Even when done and they put out the fire, the smoke fills up the whole room and the smell is choking. No one can literally stay in the room when this occurs. The gas is very poisonous and will surely affect students lungs. Also it affects the atmosphere thus contributing to climate change (not like the school cares about it). All in all cooking with kerosene stove is bad, the world has moved and as such the school management should follow likewise. Even the roadside food vendors use gas cookers. I hope they listen because they have little or no regard for the plight of students. The Incidence

I said all of this or should I say ranted because of my experience. Hot plate is illegal but I wasn't going to spend all my money buying kerosene and I wasn't going to be choked to death by the smell of carbon monoxide. I got the H.P. two days before it was seized. That was really painful. I blame myself because I wasn't sharp enough. I let my guard down. The H.P. was particularly efficient for it size and it was really good. The man must have had someone watching me or he must have been monitoring me himself because how he caught me is still bugging me till today. He came knocking on my door one night all of a sudden. I was cooking with it and he must have perceived the smell of my delicious food. He claimed that he knew what I was up to and that I should open the door to my room at once. I panicked and delayed for at least a minute so that he would think that there was nobody in the room but he didn't fall for it. He kept knocking and threatening me until I had to open the door before he knocks it down. He took it and started threatening me and all but I knew he couldn't carry out those threat if did not want to lose his job. He should just carry it and go away. I couldn't sleep that night because I didn't know what to tell my parents, they still don't know. Don't they know that it isn't convenient to be cooking with stove? Most students use hot plate because it is easier, faster and doesn't generate a gas that can kill you and by the way almost all students use hot plate and they know about it, they are just being wicked. I'm still trying to recover because I can't let this get to me. Thank you for reading my rant, don't worry there is still more to come. If you want to sponsor me here is the sponsorship block. Another time.