THE BUMMY AFFAIR

I had an experience of sorts as I was heading to work yesterday.I debated with myself on whether to journal it . Well we can all see how that debate ended!
This is what,as a lady,I call  the "BUMMY AFFAIR"- situations that leave you frustrated and sighing "Ooh bummer!"...(that actually sounds like Obama-ok that was totally irrelevant)
Back to the bummy..

Say for example you are walking to a main bus terminus in town,to get a matatu to work. You feel beautiful, you work your heels with confidence...1,2,3 step..1,2,3 step. You almost start whistling and doing a jig.The weather is marvelous..
1,2,3 step...1,2...no third step! You suddenly have to stop. Your heel just broke! The heel to one shoe actually..just broke! This right here is the bummy affair! Reason being, this is that one day you did not carry that extra pair of shoes in your bag(ladies would relate;at this point you make a serious vow never to strut around without that extra pair)
The first impulse is to look around. You need to establish if anyone saw that. It turns out you have quite an audience!! Ooohh bummer!! A guy even stops to offer you a hand since you almost lost your balance." Pole madam," he starts while scrutinizing the shoe, leaving you more uncomfortable. "Pale kuna fundi wa viatu wacha nikuonyeshe." This is Nairobi downtown. The fundi wa viatu you are taken to is seated at a dingy corner. He is a cripple. Actually he has no legs; the irony,he has no legs yet he caters to the needs of the legs. He sits there though, enjoying his morning tea, preparing his workstation. He is enjoying the marvelous weather as well. So I explain my plight to the fundi wa viatu. "Heel yangu imevunjika!Lakini haijatoka kabisa," You see it was still dangling down there..as if to say, "Dare me to come off completely!" Seriously heel, you should know at this point I can't be bothered! Fundi wa viatu will fix me shortly! "Nunua superglue madam, alafu ukuje nikutengenezee" So I 1,2 step to the shop nearby, one leg shorter than the other. This is the bummy affair I experienced yesterday.
Five minutes later, my heel is fixed. As I reach into my wallet to pay up, I remember the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31. She is compassionate and stretches out her hand to the needy.(Verse 20). 
I pull out a note and hand it to him. He wants to protest that he doesn't have change for that. I smile... "Kunywa chai ya saa nne na hiyo dadi!"
A not so bummy affair after all!


We are seated at the dining table, Jeff and I, the same evening, having dinner. He bites a spoonful. He turns to face the television which is on his extreme right and the next thing we know, he's on all fours, on the floor. He just fell! He freezes for approximately 30 seconds as he lifts his head to look around. Kids!What is that moment of hesitation about? Are they usually deciding on how to react or just preparing their vocals to start crying?! He starts wailing before I finish that thought.
Shoot me but at this point my face is almost pink. I'm stifling laughter! Trust me that fall was hilarious. He fell like a sackful of potatoes. Literally! Intact! I can't hold it. I start giggling. He's crying. I giggle. He's crying. He giggles. He giggles.He laughs.I laugh. We're all laughing... 
Kids! They forget so easily!