This Chic: Do You Have The Nerve?

If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe

Say you will

Say you will

I got picked up today

Not at the bar, but on the road on a bright mid Sunday morning.

He said

I am Kevin and I like how you look

I said thank you

I like your figure He said, to be specific

I said okay

He said you know your father and mother met the same way you and me have met, let's make history where are you going can I come with you?

All in one breath

I considered it for three seconds

I could let myself get picked up

And become Wakefini

And nine months later I will be waBrayo for the rest of my life because he will insist we name our child after his cousin  in America.

I said, I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Do you know any deaf people around here?

He said oh right JehovahWitness

He said there was a deaf around the corner.

Kwa club Ile iko pale Shell

She works there? I asked.

He explained some more.

I asked if he wanted something to read.

 He said if you give me a book I'll read. I gave him an Awake! 

And he left.

Nerve

My  Samsung dictionary has nine entries for -nerve- 

No. 4 Nerve- is the courage that you need to do something difficult or dangerous.

That's close enough.

Is that all that is needed? I mean was Kevin courageous and was it dangerous to run a pick up line on a total stranger on a Sunday morning?

I don't think so. Here you are blaming culture and this being a man's world but It's probably he's just not that into you.

But maybe some suffer from nerves

No.3 Nerves

Feelings of anxiety or tension.

But reflexology cures that and I know just the person to give you the fix. Just inbox.

"Mr.Bennet! Have mercy on my poor nerves!"

No. 6 Nerve-disapproval - when you do something which you have no right to do. 

As a member of the female species even in a world that grows chicken in one month, you are not supposed to have the nerve to use a pick up line.

So keep your nerve girl

No.7 Nerve- The ability to remain calm and determined in a difficult situation.

Until the right Kefini picks you up and literally carrys you home.

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