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ManA: you don’t treat me well and don’t care about me, when is the last time we spend quality time together….
ManB:….blah blah (I can only hear one end of the conversation)
ManA: its like every time I want us to spend time you are always busy, remember last weekend, I was there the whole Saturday and you didn’t…
ManB:….blah blah
ManA: What? I only worked half day, we could have done something in the afternoon, and I am not even saying like go out for movies or anything….. just even the park, or cook together, I don’t know (voice becoming heavier…)
ManB:…and so on and so forth
ManA: I am serious we don’t spend any quality time together
ManB: ….something something
ManA: so what do you want me to do, I can’t take this…are you ashamed of going out in public with me
{now starting to sob and slur in speech}
ManB: something else, something else
ManA: but you keep saying that, you keep saying that…hmmm…but you never do anything
ManB: what about this and that
ManA: that was like a month ago…I don’t know, I just don’t know
ManB: what, what, now?
ManA: I have to go I am at work….sobs….sobs….
ManB: something…something
ManA: Because I don’t hang up that’s why!…sobs more
manB: whatever
ManA: I have to go really….sobs last time…hangs up.
key
ManA: my workmate sits 5 paces from my desk
ManB: The dude on the other end of the conversation, the boyfriend I suppose, who doesn’t do anything like cook and spend quality time with ManA.
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I don’t know what your opinion is on gayness but it was the weirdest thing to sit and listen to a jamaa on the phone sobbing and conversing on relationship matters, knowing very well it’s another DUDE on the other side of the phone.
I support gay rights and I believe every person has a right to choose who they sleep with and not be discriminated by society for it.
My support is legal, a civic duty; socially though I reserve the right to be weirded by such situations as above or equally worse (and recently witnessed) a grey haired man fabulously hanging a female handbag from his should and strolling as if nothing is awkward about it.
We are definitely living in a different world!
Grand THEFT Auto
May 20, 2008 · 4 Comments
For the 4th edition of the Grand Theft Auto video game series below are some head shaking statistics from the first week of sale.
Keep in mind each game costs approximately $ 60.00 and obviously one will need a console such as an Xbox 360 or PS3 which runs approximately $ 300 – $ 500. Then I heard on the radio this morning—and this I had to confirm— there are books for sale, guide books which sell at approximately $ 20.00.
A guide book for a video game …for $20.00!
Don’t parents miss the good old days when a hill and half cut kibuyu would provide children all the play and adrenaline rush they needed for school holidays?
Or an old tire with water/oil and two sticks to ‘steer’ making for a good safari rally. Who remembers… “I want to be Patrick Njiru, I want to be Patrick Njiru, I want to be Patrick Njiru…then settling for Juha Kankkunenn after someone out-shouted you to get Njiru”?
And kadenge na mpira, shake, kati, hide & seek…etcetera? Cheap and socially engaging childhood games.
I say good luck to 3N jr. if he thinks I will fork over $ 600 plus for his entertainment instead of multiplying that by 60 and buying approximately 5k shares of Safcom just like every Kenyan is nowadays required to.
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