U just moved into your new crib. Specious enough it can fit ile stand ya tv 21inch Sony Flat Screen and an extra table for cooking ‘Meko’ na ile kitu ya plastic ya kuweka vyombo . Iko na tiles so no need for carpet (ile ya karatasi)
Kila mtu na stima yake,choo kila mtu ana keys yake and the most impotant ni ati maji iko thruout.
Monthly rent ni 2300 as compared to previous one which was 1800 na maji ni kubahatisha.
So uv just moved in, umepanga keja vipoa and u cant wait to invite your girlfriend (mboch flani mkamba).
At around 8pm unatoka kuscan mtaa ukikagua kibanda utakua unabuy skuma na nyanya na kanyama ivi.
Kurudi its almost 9pm unapata gate imefungwa.
Kila mtu anakuanga na key isipokua wewe coz uv just moved in so lazima utangoja landlord akuletee key maybe the following day.
So u start knocking
U; “Ko ko ko ko ko”
Jirani: “Ni nani”
U: " Ni mimi"
Remember its ua first day na hakuna mtu anakujua kwa ploti bado.
Jirani; “Wewe nani”?
U; unasema jina yako
Jirani hajawai skia jina ka hio kwa ploti
Anaita jirani mwenzake wanaanza kukudiscuss hapo. “Ati hawa ni waizi wenye wanalalisha watu kwa ploti achana na yeye ataenda…ametoka wapi saai”
Its already past 10pm now and u sure look like mshukiwa umevaa short na slippers na sukuma ya 10bob na nyanya mbili na doughnut tatu za breakfast.
Unapigia beshte yako unacrush kwake tu cha lazima.Next day unapigia landlord and demand your gate key immediatly.
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This reminds of my first rented house in weteithie. The rent was 1200/- including stima . Maji was a luxury in weteithie. It was bought at 2/- per mtungi from a centralised tap near the chiefs camp. Then it was 2008. Ningefungiwa gate nilipitia juu ya gate hadi I had to be chased away
Lets say you are in a new town kama Nakuru hivi. You just been transfered to work there. After a few days nikapata keja hukoo Racecourse through an agent. House no. 1 nearest the gate. But no one had the forethought of telling me that gate hufungwa 9 na kwashiakored german alsatian mongerels kama zile za @uwesmake na @introvert are let to roam the small space of 10 x 100… First day nikapitapita mtaani nikikagua area. Got home at 915 pm. Gate kakuta keshafungwa. Knocking at it bore no fruits except a very scares Scumbag after the three aforementioned mongerels almost jumped the gate trying to get at me… Good thing is Mututho had not happened then. Nililala kwa bar flani na barman akawa beste for the two years I spent in Nakuru…
I was once in such a scenario karibu na Kobil ya Embakasi , near Igloos Pub (not sure if it still exists).I was fresher in that plot and one day we were out for a job hizo pande za Machakos.On our way back we were stuck in traffic Mombasa road just at the Kitengela junction.That was before the road was dual carriage.Sisi na kiherehere yetu we decided to drive off road .We used a road that is next to a big chicken farm near Mlolongo and tukakwama the place is cotton soil.Since i was a passenger nilishuka kusukuma gari and nikaona since kulikuwa na matope ni fold trouser to knee length.During this exercise the cotton soil mud from the wheel spin ika stick kwa shin aka muthiririmo , and i have hairy legs.
We managed to drive back to Mombasa Road by then it was around midnight and the traffic had eased.The driver alini drop karibu na plot but on getting hapo kwa gate the only neighbour nilikuwa na simu yake he was offline.
Nika knock but nikaona the more i am knocking the gate the more i am courting trouble.
I walked back to the Kobil petrol station and befriended the guards hapo kwa ATM ya Equity.Challenge was trying to rest since the matope had by now dried.Nilipumzika till morning nikajichukia sana .Morning i walked to the plot and the biggest challenge was to get the mud off my legs .It was very painful even after softening the mud using water.
Which year was that? Kuna ploti niliishi ungetaka watu waamke, unatafuta a big stone unagonga twice tu, hata mtu yuko 5th floor anaamka. Gate ilikuwa inalia kama zile karai zinagongwa pale Jua Kali.