On sunday after church I decided to do my shopping, so I drove to Ikeja City Mall right after first service, that was about 10:00 am in the morning. Naim as I reach there, I collect parking ticket, dem say na 200 naira flat rate. Hmmmm. No wahala. I kon dey reason to myself, the thing wey I come buy na 300 naira pere, parking 200. LOL. I dey reason am dey waka when one babe and her lovely cute baby boy stopped me to say hi, she say she dey watch my youtube videos… ha! I’m a celebrity! I need to start signing autographs sha because she was the 4th person that stopped me that day to say “Hi Sisi Yemmie”. Thank you guys for making me feel special! My body is toto-ring me
After I greet am finish, nai I say make I even bring out my wallet: I noticed it wasn’t inside my bag. Ok, no panicking. I always keep my wallet in a separate compartment in the car incase those lagos fast boys decide to grab my bag in traffic. Good strategy right? So I walked as fast as my koi-koi shoe would allow me to the car, mildly sweating at this point, I checked the special compartment and couldn’t find the wallet. Ah! Gbese! I checked boot, everywhere in the car, almost checked the engine, nothing! I checked my bag like 10 more times, no wallet.
I found only 50 naira in my bag. I gave the rest as offering in Church.
At this point I was already heating up, so I went to the ticket kiosk and explained to the lady in the most apologetic humble way possible; I told her I hadn’t even entered the mall, that I can’t find my wallet, abeg make dem allow me pass. . . abeg na.
She said “ eh…what will I do?”
Omoge, all I want you to do is check the time I drove in, you can see it’s not up to 10 minutes, allow me pass. I forgot my wallet.
She stared at me blankly.
I asked ” did you hear what I just said?”
She shrugged her shoulders.
G B E S E! 200 NAIRA GBESE!!! Aiye mi o!
So I asked to see her supervisor, she said I should go to the other ticketing kiosk that I will find supervisor there. Sigh. Ok.
I entered my motor and drove to the second kiosk.
I started narrating my story again, the lady I met just had this confused look on her face like “so”?
Ema gbami!
So I told her that I was told to come here, that a supervisor will attend to me. She said …
” abeg who told you that one, no supervisor here oh”
So that first babe just ping-ponged me so she doesn’t have to deal with me. All because of 200 naira. I don suffer. Na me be dis?
While I was busy explaining to her I heard someone from behind call my name, I swear, I almost fainted with embarrassment, the voice was that of a guy, I turned around, I couldn’t recognise his face. He asked when the problem was and I told him, he swiftly proceeded to pay. Apparently, we follow each other on twitter and we went to the same uni but I couldn’t for the life of me remember.
In that moment I knew it was God showing me love through this guy. My other options would have been to take a taxi home to get my wallet, that would’ve cost me nothing less than 4000 naira OR phone a friend OR carry my car on my head home OR beg a random person (yeeeepa!) OR sweep Ikeja Mall.
Thank you Gbenga Alakija for not letting me sweep ICM that beautiful sunday. God Bless you!
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Aw, you should have carried the car on your head home, lol, just jokig. Interesting post though, those women no even send you, sorry sha.
It would have been more interesting to see sisi Yemmie hawking her car on her head . lol.
Choi kpele, that is never a good experience. Those women didnt even give a flying frog. Thank God for the good samaritan
it was God… seriously He sent your friend to come bail you. like e no go funny at all o. Lol
Lol, I can only imagine the way you were sweating! Just for the record never expect sympathy (or kindness for that matter) from fellow women in that kind of situation o. Particulalry sales girls etc, they always have one kain attitude like you are dragging their men together. If a man had explained the same thing they would gladly help…Big ups to Gbenga, followed him just cos he allowed God to use him to bless a certain special somebodi… Love u babes xxx
Sisi Yemmie, you won't kill me o! Thank God you were saved,lol
lol! sounds funny right now but I can imagine it wouldn't have been funny when it was happening. Imagine spending 4k because of N200?. By the way, why dem no even get supervisor on duty?.
Thank God for the help he sent! I cannot for the life of me imagine what would have happened with the attitude the staff on duty put up.
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LOL So funny…Thanks to Gbenga. God will bless him a million times!
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LOOOOOL!! I Laughed out loud @ carry my car on my head. These people know wan know o. Just 200bucks. chai!! ko da ooo
Really love your story but sorry it happened 2 u oooo.
Oh… Blog design is lovely, Love me some colour. when you first did it, it wasn't aligned properly.see that you've corrected it. so yeah (y)
ol mai gosh! Sweep Ikeja Mall? you will not finish in a week! I bet God was cracking up in the first few minutes before he decided to send someone down. He has a sense of humor too. If i were you, I would just start crying
Awwwww! Things sure worked out very well. Lesson: Appreciate your twitter followers well. hahaha!
LMAO! Gbenga is a lifesaver, God bless him. Next time always double check your wallet before stepping out of the house.
Thank God for Gbenga, social media and your beautiful personality. If to say you be corner corner person, even Gbenga for dodge you.
Wooow! God bless Gbenga Alakija 😀
God really comes thru for his people. Hope u found ur wallet eventually tho
hahahaa…mehnnn na to phone a friend oh but Yemisi I'm sure you'll survive carrying your car and making a YouTube video for us. lolll
Lol this kind of thing has happened to me before. A funny story though. http://www.secretlilies.com
Eh yaa…thank God for good Samaritans eh?
Something similar happened to me recently. I was at the American embassy and then some guy comes to check my docs and is like I am missing an important document and I have to print it if not I wont enter the embassy, at that point I was like ah! Lobatan. I started panicking cos the line was super long and it was almost my turn to get inside. I now started running looking for where to print. I found staples close by entered about to use computer the thing said insert card. I spoke to cashier, told her my wallet wasnt with me and my car is parked far she said I could get their cash card which costs $5 and I had 0.50cents on me. I started crying, thinking about my options which were to run to the car get money run back to staples print and then run back to the embassy or to beg someone for money. The former option did not seem viable so I started begging oh! I begged this old woman she said she did not feel comfortable using her credit card so she gave me $3 cash which was not enough which was not enough. Then I begged another young sisi I saw there and she said she did not have cash. FInally one of the workers saw me begging and was like 'it is against company policy to to beg other customers in the store, ask for help next time' that is how she let me use their computer and I printed. Thankfully, I used the $3 the old woman gave me to pay for the print job and ran as fast as my legs could carry me to the embassy. My spot was still there and I was glad cos going back to the end of the line wont have been funny at all. Mine was not a friend but I blessed the woman and I learnt a lesson to be not so ignorant when some strangers ask for help at times..sorry my post is long but I just thought to share 🙂
I have palpitations whenever I start looking for ma wallet wherever I am.
ThankGod for the gift of helpers in difficult situations.
Kai. I can't even think of the thoughts that would have been running through your mind. Thank God for wonderful samaritans.
hahahaha! I would have fainted! thank God u did not have to sweep the mall.. I would be sharing some experiences too on my blog
I am that girl with the cute baby boy lol, it was nice meeting u, I thought you will run away, since I was smiling like a crazy person
Ahhh, I am that girl with the cute baby boy lol, it was nice meeting you, I thought you will run away oo, since I was smiling so hard, I must have looked crazy sef
LMAO!!! it would have made headlines on Linda Ikeji's blog "BLOGGER Sisi Yemmie could not afford to pay for parking!!! thank God for Gbenga
lmao!! sisi yemmie has killed me with laughter!! God works in MYSTERIOUS ways.
Ah! a whole youTube celebrity…. Don't they know who you are?
God bless Gbenga for saving our sisi yemmie
What kind of yeye good samaritan is this one? He ruined what would have been a very interesting gist: Sisi Yemmie Sweeps Entire Mall AND Carries Car On Her Head.
Ahhh!
Mr. Samaritan, please warn yourself! Ehen, I don talk my own finish.
lol…. you're mean oooo. You see why I say women are mean to one another?
Thank God o
Ah…. lol
God bless Gbenga!
It could only be God
lol Thank God
When it was happening, it wasnt funny! lol
Amen! God bless Gbenga. All is well 😀
awww thank you
on top 200 naira lol
yay! Thanks for the feed back
I almost started crying sef…too much frustration
I appreciate all my followers oh , twitter, fb, blog, youtube lol
Next time i will oh jare
Thank God say I nor be corner corner pesin…e for red for me
I actually forgot the wallet at home. Thank God
Ha…would have been fun to make a video of it. lol
very funny story
Thank God oh
True, now I'm quite considerate to strangers
LOL.. I have palpitations too when I look for my wallet or phone
plenty thoughts… Thank God
Ha ha ha… Thank God oh
Oh yay! It was so lovely to meet you! Imagine what happened to me that day…lol
Chai… you nor good oh lol
God is marvelous!
Sisi Yemmie gbo gbo world wide! lol
Vera! lol Only your own will be different…lol. I thought we were friends???
That's two thumbs for Social media. Thank God for Gbenga!!
Baton has been handed to you. pay it forward…
Thank God for Gbenga, if not ehh, all these senrere bloggers would carry it has headline news >>>>BLOGGER SISI YEMMIE CAUGHT SWEEPING IKEJA MALL<<<< hehehe
had a similar situation in a salon had already finished braiding and wallet was not in my bag!!! embarassment was not enough to describe what i felt!!!! guess who paid? the girls who made my hair. i was there the next day to refund them and i gave them interest!! some people are just a blessing!
lmaoo… i cant even imagine what you would have done.
i love your blog, learning alot before i finally come back home to settle in may.
Jesus is Lord. How come I have not stumbled into this internet zone until today… Mhen you are mad funny SisiYemmie…I kept screaming in laufta, and its 2am in the morning.