It is rude not look…
Two things happened this week in Machakos a
man was forcefully being washed by
the touts and that was happening in public and were all very entertained as he
was being washed with very little water. I actually wondered whether their intention
was to make him dirtier.
The next thing that was happening just a few
metres a drunk man lying on the pavement behind the shops decided to
relieve himself by just urinating where he was resting and which was in the
public. Some women who were very daring decided to stare
at him as he was doing his thing. And although he was drunk he was not very
amused that he had an audience and he started cursing in his mother tongue
which was Kikamba and one woman
courageously responded to him still in Kikamba
and am very sure she said something like “if you have decided to show us, you want
us not look?” Fortunately for me I did not have to be rude to him because he had hidden his fundamentals.
The point is we have been taught even in
primary school and as we were growing up that when you do not look at someone when
they are talking to you, is very rude and it could have even earned you a
beating from the teachers. What made us become so shy? Am convinced if women stared
more at the men who like urinating publicly that would discourage that bad
habit.
When someone is trying to show you something
it is rude not to look. Please indulge them and stare…permission granted!
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