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A Sunday on Sunday



 Good morning Monday 

A Sunday can be so nice until you part with ksh 300 for getting your hair chopped off when your budget was ksh 99. Chopping off my own hair, my own hair at ksh 300 ! With this economy! Haidhuru ! This is not money that can ruin a God - sent Sunday. 

Somewhere in Kahawa, I was walking hurriedly but keen to find a barber shop. A good affordable barber shop. Calculating my quick steps not to deep them into the muddy portholes. It was an urgent matter, like the hair on my head was literally going to kill me in the coming hours.

On bad days, where bad days equals no or less money in the pocket, I don't come close to barber shops with those fancy glass doors. They will do anything on your head to rip you off an extra coin. Even brushing your teeth if you allow. But Sunday was not a bad day after all, not because of a heavy pocket this time but a joyful heart. 

So I got into a barber shop with a slightly fancy glass door. Before then, I had passed with speed another with a very very fancy glass door. I knew they would rob me. So I settled for the one with slightly fancy glass door. Little did I know they were also 'armed robbers' (armed with shaving machines) 

I looked at myself in the mirror and liked the person I had just become. And I thought to myself that without the bad hair, I would even like the person more. When I came back to my senses I notice a sticker on the wall behind me written "Get a whisky tort for services above ksh 1000." Before I read the whisky part, I almost stood up from the seat because it's the '1000' that hit my eyes first, I was only seeing it from the mirror so perhaps I was reading it in reverse. 

I thought of calling Robert to come and see a barber shop with a whisky tort. But Robert is Kikuyu, he would start explaining how we could use that ksh 1000 to rent a space and deal cars. Robert is a tort guy, but I can confidently tell you that he is not a guy who will spend a thousand to get a tort. Not for getting his hair chopped and face scrubbed.

I later realized that my day was not even spoilt  as such for using ksh 300 to see the barber. It didn't matter any more. There was a neutralizer. I won a jackpot. 



Comments

  1. prodigitalMarch 27, 2023 at 10:05 AM

    You didn't Gerrit ? See 'at a glance'

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  2. @It'sRobertMarch 27, 2023 at 12:19 PM

    Congratulations on your win. Haidhuru! 😂

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  3. AnonymousMarch 27, 2023 at 1:58 PM

    Wenye wanafloat kama Mimi kujeni nyuma ya tent 😅

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2023 at 5:17 PM

    Sunday is here😍😍

    ReplyDelete

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