Sometimes i just love to sit and smile over memories from childhood, in this crazy and insane times, you just have to find a way to make yourself smile if not eh the stress can run you mad. Growing up as kids down here in Lagos Nigeria, you where either called a "kpako" kid (meaning you grew up in the crazy and hard areas of the state, Kpako kids are assumed to be stronger and wiser, they can face any situation and cant be cheated) Or if you grew up in the very luxurious areas of town then you where called an "ajebutter" kid, these kids where seen by kpako kids as the fortunate ones, grew up in choice areas called "rich man area", they went to expensive schools, where assumed lazy and couldn't speak pidgin English lol. An average kpako kid always felt hate, jealousy, or envy for an ajebutter child and felt they will take down any ajebutter kid that came their way. But for me, growing up was a perfect mix of both lives, and till date i'm glad to have done so many things in our kpako neighborhood but also blessed to have experienced the butter life as a kid. So what breed am i then? anyways......
So today, i stumbled across some activities that so many of us "kpako" and some "ajebutter" kids indulged in as kids years back, i can authoritatively say, with all the conviction in my digestive system, if you never did any of these or heard any of these then you should join Michael Jackson in singing "have you seen my childhood..." because of a truth eh, YOU MISS!!!
DID YOU EVER....
1- kill earthworms with salt?
2- play rubber band? and when one rubber climbs the other we scream "odo" lwkmd
3- bath outside or in the rain? personally i broke a tooth playing in the rain
4- hear about India vs Nigeria in football matches. the line was that their balls turned to lions and when the Nigerian keeper sees it, he runs away and they will score 99 - 1... remember?
5- sleep in the sitting room and wake up in the room?
6- throw your milk teeth on the roof ?
7- play monkey post or police and thief for the guys and ten ten or tinko tinko for the ladies ?
8- fly kite? the ones with newspaper, those thick brooms and eba OR the kites with nylon , brooms and thread? while flying they get cut in NEPA wires and you will have to abandon it
9- stick your foot inside sand and build houses with them?
10- write your name on a small sheet of paper and insert it into your pen so no one will steal it?
11- close and open the fridge door slowly to see the lights turn off or on? i thought i was the only one doing this sha lolzz
12- wave at white birds flying in the sky singing "lekeleke give me......" expecting your nails to have patches of white on them?
13- mix garri and sugar in your pocket and eat it while walking on the street. (if you did this you are a king in the kpako kingdom i swear)
14- play mama and papa? cooking with sand and leaves and empty cans as pot. (this was where many of you discovered your sexuality if you can remember lolzz)
15- play table soccer with bottle covers and empty sugar containers?
16- play koso? a mix of biro and battery cover
17- fall inside dirty gutter and the kids in your area come out singing "aluwe o ja bo si gutter..."
Do you remember doing most of these? i dare say that if you did all, we should crown you the King of Kpako kids , but well most of us actually did do all hahahaha but i hope it put some form of smile on your face. If you have more you can share with us.
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