(Posted on 09 Oct 2013)
My first experience as a #NyumbaKumiInitiative-ist:
*Knock knock (on the single lady next door neighbour’s door)*
No response.
*Knock!*
“Ni nani?”
“Ni mimi, hapa next door.”
*Silence*
*Knock knock!*
“Wewe unataka nini? Enda!” (True story)
“Wah, nilikuwa nauliza kama ni wewe umenichukulia nguo. Pole.”
*Noises inside. Latches unlocking.*
“Pole. Sikudhani ni wewe Edwin. Unaona huyu mtu wa huku *points to her next door neighbour. Two doors from me* anakujanga akiwa mlevi anaanza kunipigia mlango. Nimedhani ni yeye…”*
(And, the only neighbour whose name I know; and whose number I have in a 1 km radius, hands me my clothes.)
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, it is because of clowns like the dude who lives two doors from my house that I think the initiative will fail.