The guy who brought me gas gave me such a beautiful smile I felt like I had walked into the secret garden.
I don’t like men who smile smile a lot
In fact I would like my order to be; a little sullen, with an overpowering sense of gray dread aura around them.
But here was in full uniform like a fireman with a smile so genuine, so sunny, like an imported orange.
I felt like I opened the gate and Saw myself, saw something familiar.
He had followed my directions, and called me back when my airtime ran out.
I spent ten minutes trying to pay to the till. Until I finally paid him directly and he told me if I ordered from their app next time I’d get a KG of sugar.
But I don’t mind much about the sugar.
Hiyo smile ndio nataka kuona tena.
Sijui nifungulie gas hapa nje iishe niitishe tena.
How do we have in 2023, on the outskirts of Nairobi, a Kenyan man with a beard, smiling like that?
Me the men I know always look like they want to slap someone.
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