Mwangilicious ...
I have become so Mwangilicious these past week ...
I may not be an equal opportunity employee (eoe) (trust me, I have seen what my bosses and some consultants are making) but I definitely am an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
I mean, on my first day of work, after the Mat had dropped me in Westi (hapo kwa round about ya Sarit) ... I decided to get my only pair of work shoes polished. So I sat on the stool, spread me three legs and put two of them on the stone, leaving the third one to the mercies of the merciless August morning breeze ...
"Sema Mwangi ..."
I looked up, wondering nani huyo. Before I could utter a word, the shoe shiner replied and said "Nikwega Muno ..." (Poa sana ... loosely translated) ... No biggie ... Mwangi's are many so sio coincidence that Mwangi was both the doer and the doee ... with the shoe being the object for the dirty minds out there ... (I have since reformed ... ) lol ...
Lakini Mwangi the doer seems to be lazier than Mwangi the doee. Si I struck a rapport with my namesake and made it a habit of letting him do my shoes kila asubuhi, often, ongezaing a kaloose 10 bob extra ... but he started sleeping and I like being at work by 7.30 AM meaning lazima awe hapo by 7 ...
So jana I hamad to the other side ... a street down towards Waiyaki Way ... hapo Woodvale Grove. I sat down and perfomed the now memorized leg spreading ritual ...
"Uga Mwangi" ... (hi Mwangi)
Okay this time it had to be me the doee but ALAS ... it was the doer once again. "Di mwega muno" (I am very well ) replied the doer as he pokead the gazeti from the newspaper man.
This morning, he did me shoes again ... it seems I can't escape me. I really want to know how many of us shine njumus in Westi ...
parting shot ...
Is it plainly obvious that I smoke something extra ... I mean I don't think ... I mean I can't remember ... I mean no I don't ...
So yesterday evening as I am waiting hapo kwa jam Westi ... this guy approaches me ... immediately I become very alert, waiting, ready for anything. I know he is definitely fixed on my trajectory. When he fikas, he tells me:
"Bro, makuti mii husambaza ... unataka?"
I was momentarily lost in the lingua. Okay sambaza I have since nyambuad from SafCom ... lakini makuti ... err ... then I smelled the unmistakable aroma that was the delight and delicacy of my college weekends na huko hivo mbali ...
I told him "zii".
Lastly:
Galileo's Kesho night is a plot.
Labels: jobo ..., maisha NAI
posted by jm at 1:14 AM
12 Comments:
now i know who to count on to shine my shoes.... LOL
could it be a sign of hidden talents. Galileo kesho, thinking...
LOL! I think there are very many Mwangis out there I have at least 5 in my phone book. Do you also shine shoes? Galileo's hmmm could be my last chance
Is makuti the something extra you've been smoking?
Looks like that jobo is the natural calling for Mwangis.Dude, change your career. Maybe if there was something like an industrial shoeshine machine doing like 100 njumus a minute, that's the thing for you.Consider.
You remember Kamau the bus drive, from now henceforth, you are Mwangi the Shoe Shiner. And you should never refuse ganja – you should have at least told the guy “nitakuona Friday jioni”.
shoe shiner..hahaah, what a coincidence dude, maybe you should set up a shoe shining baze at this yua blog////eer?do u know how to shine suede shoes btw
When Mwangi shines ur shoes, u shine 2.....thats the kiwi shoe shine, thats the Mwangi shoe shine!!
Were you wearing shorts? Ama you were in boxers? Juu if the 3rd leg is at the mercy of August breeze....Ok. Galileos sounds like its going to...
It'd be a shame to deny your God given talents. Who knows, maybe shoe shining is indeed your destiny!! You could start a franchise and be a millionare!!
Are they brown or black shoes? then again does it matter? Do keep on keeping the Mwangi shoeshine chain running!
Bro..hii jina "Mwangiis specio..the talents..the talents!!!
Unyc looool has he been SHINING your "shoes" too??
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