A lover. Catholic. Ambivert. Goofball
Lagos, Nigeria
Joined March 2017
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There is something innately beautiful about the Catholic Church; the solemnity of the holy mass, the orderliness, the songs.
I really love worshiping at St. Charles Borromeo parish 😍
Btw I wore a half straightened wig to work today because the light barely lasted
20mins yesterday.
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Regina Phalange retweeted
Till today, you can’t use most Nigerian bank cards to make international purchases!!!
You can’t pay for TEMU or Apple Pay if you don’t have certain bank cards, or virtual cards that charge you like a third party would, why???
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHY????
All these happened in 2020 because they didn’t want Nigerians in diaspora helping the Endsars movement!!! A movement that was aimed at stopping lawful officers from harming citizens!!!
6 years later, you still can’t use your bank card to make foreign transactions, you have to use “certain” banks, and you think this is normal????
And you’re not angry???
PayPal and the likes of it are not functional in Nigeria!! You have to find people in diaspora to route foreign payments and lose a large chunk of money in the process.
A business you created for yourself by the way; fund and run unsubsidized by the government, AND will be taxed once it hits your account.
And you’re telling me not to make enemies of the people “because they have a different political view”???
The people who turned off the lights at the tollgate???
The people who shot at innocent protesters??
The people who shut down twitter???
The people who restricted international banking transactions????
Omo! Thunder faya you and yours! Gtfoh!
Regina Phalange retweeted
You can access 25% benefit if you're without a job for 3-4 months or you can apply for residential mortgage, it's also 25% of your RSA balance.
A person who loves his neighbor as thyself will not blast music through a speaker in a public bus at 7am.
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Regina Phalange retweeted
went to ebano, one of my favourite places in the world (you should start your december shopping there now btw). was at the fruit section getting my usual tangerines and cucumbers. you know the drill: put your fruits in a bag, get them weighed and tagged at the back, then pay at the front.
there was a guy looking for avocados and ube pears. you could tell he was shopping for someone, maybe a runner or a chowdeck order. no avocados, but he got the pears.
by the time i got to the counter, he walked up holding the pears in his hand, skipped the line and put them straight on the counter while they were still tagging my things. the cashiers were visibly irritated but nobody said anything.
so i told him, "i'll go first, then you go next. but first you need to bag them and get them tagged by the guy at the back." he went, came back with them bagged but not tagged. i showed him the tag on my tangerine bag and explained again. he went back, got them tagged, came back and dropped them in front of me again 😭 (please don't ask me questions, i buy a lot.) i told him again, "when they're done with me, they'll do yours."
he took it all in stride. no attitude. then a song came on and i started dancing, he started dancing too, and everybody burst out laughing. for like 3 seconds the cashiers forgot they were looking at him weird.
what stayed with me is that common sense isn't common, especially for the basic things. we all grew up differently. in a regular market, if you queue you're the mumu. you stand around the seller and everybody gets attended to. then you enter a space with different rules, and some people know them only because someone taught them without embarrassing them.
i had almost the same moment at old english with a man who looked like he should "know better." i told him the same thing, that they'd attend to him after me so he didn't need to stand in front of me. he started barking like a dog. and you just know that's part of why he was frustrated in the first place. you can't go far if you won't take correction about something as small as order.
that's the difference between those two men. we lose so many chances to teach each other and bond when we expect what we know to be common sense, and when we're too proud to take feedback. life isn't that hard. we complicate it when we demand things of a world we're not even willing to build.