I was at the airport on Sunday evening and as you know with Nigerian airports, everything there na suffer head. Sometimes I think this suffering is intentional, and everything is just meant to frustrate you because some kain things you go reason wey nor suppose dey as dem be…
For example….Why is the airport so hot? AC nor dey work? Why chairs nor dey for people to siddon? Why are mopol people harassing travellers?
Why oh why?
Moving on, the airport was filled with a lot of the IJGB’s returning to obodo oyinbo and I couldn’t help but admire the flawless skin on some of them, and their freshly braided hair. You cannot come to Naija and be going back with rubbish hair…it gat’s be braids so that it lasts a very very long time.
My thoughts were interrupted by one Mr Man, he was elderly, I would assume in his fifties but he was very agile because the way the man waka go meet one woman ehn…he had to be fit. He was clearly upset. This Mr Man was yelling at a woman who later on I found out was his wife. She was very distressed and was talking on the phone, gesticulating helplessly.
She kept pacing up down, just trying to get away from the man and Mr Man was having none of it. He was shouting, walking behind her. She was trying to waka away. I was unlooking.
“Bia , what nonsense…is it not you I’m talking to? “ he was causing a scene. Then he started talking to himself. Sorry, to the whole airport because I could hear all he was saying from where I was standing helping Bobo to carry his jacket.
“Imagine… how can we travel? Ehn? Wia is de passport??? “ His eyes were opened wide in anger.
Mrs Man on the phone “Please check inside the wardrobe, maybe the passport is there….can you take Okada from surulere to airport?…
Okada ke???
The husband was furious, calling her all sorts and she was just there, on the phone almost weeping. People sha begged him to calm down. I don’t know If they travelled or not but as an observer I was picking my lessons:
1. Always check your travelling documents at least 2 weeks before a trip, then the night before the trip, then on the morning of the trip, then on ya way to the airport. It reminds me of when I was travelling last year with valid visa on expired passport. Na for airport I take know say e don expire. Couldn’t travel.
2. Don’t shout at your spouse in public, no matter the offense. It just makes you look bad even though the reason you’re angry is very valid. Just avoid embarrassing moments in public.
3. Is there a problem? Be solution oriented. Find the solution together….It’s better than fighting each other and then nothing gets fixed (*note to self). The woman was busy calling for help and finding a solution while Mr Man was busy ranting…
*IJGB’s = I Just Got Back (used to refer to Nigerians living abroad but visiting or relocating to Nigeria)
