What Can I do...

Brethren, this cool afternoon I say make I go grocery shopping, so I picked myself up, and walked to the shopping mall which is not far from where I live. The first thing I did was to enter a shop to buy suit, because I remember say the suit wey I get for house don shrink (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!), and this other suit was just calling my name, 'sisi come, see me, see me'...Clothes talk to me! So I spent about an hour trying on a few and bought the one wey hala my name pass. 

After the purchase I proceeded to Tesco, I picked some onions, no, this one is too expensive so I dropped it and looked for cheaper ones. I made sure everything I bought today was either half price or on sale...you won't blame me, I don use money wey I suppose use chop take buy cloth, so anytime i'm hungry I will just open my wardrobe, look at the cloth, swallow spit and bellefull.


After buying food stuff oh, I decided I didn't need a particular shirt so I went back to the shop to return it; thank you Jesus for exchange and refunds in this obodo oyibo. I cannot try this nonsense in Naija. The last time I enter one boutique for warri na so one babe dey follow me round the store like mopol....I felt so uncomfortable and left, as I was leaving this girl use her eyes carry me up and down then fling me comot....since that day I decided no more window shopping in Warri boutiques.

I return the dress finish, oya make I dey go house. It was then I remembered I had to withdraw some money from the cash machine, naim I put card inside, enter my pin. Check balance? Nooooo! that's too much torment, I don't want to see the balance.Withdraw cash? Yes!!! and I pressed the button. BLANK. That is the last I remember. Brethren, when I got to my house I checked my pocket and I did not find the money I withdrew, apparently ya babygirl withdrew money, collected atm card but forgot to collect the cash! Who came up with this ATM system in the first place? that card ejects before your cash follows. It is a very stupid strategy. Tell them I said so.

It pained me to lose that money because I know someone else must have taken it out, and someone somewhere is rejoicing for the osho free money they got today *rolls eyes*. I remember my bobo and I have picked osho free money in the park one day after debating whether we go turn to goat or not. It is obodo oyinbo, we did not turn to goats. LOL. I will just console myself with the thought that the person wey collect my own is probably broke and needs it more than I do. Still, it hurts right here *points to heart* sobs. I shall recite the Serenity Prayer throughout today...

Have you lost money before? How did you feel?
Have you found money before? How did you feel? LOL



25 comments

  1. I totally know this feeling sisi. I withdrew money one day in my broke season to do groceries, bought one thing(barely 20% of d entire money), collected change nd left. When it was time to pay for sumthing else, the money was nowhere to be found. Kai, I roamed that area lyk a mad person retracing my steps bt someone in need picked it alredi. O dun mi sha

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  2. Awww...pele...consoling urself dt the person who got it is in need of it more than u is a good idea...u might have blessed someone unknowingly...

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  3. kai, sorry oooo. It is so so painful. Whenever I lose money, I just want to cry. But I console myself with 'it is just money, more will come'

    Some people see free money and even give testimony that its from God, forgetting that the real owner might be crying.

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  4. LoL i have llost money too but i am weird i forget as soon as i decide to... found money? yes!! i had the turning to goat debate too... but didnt take it jor... sorry about your money...

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  5. yes o i have lost money , and i did not realize until i was about to pay the hair stylist...so embarrassing. u know ow pple eye dey choke for uk wen it comes to money , the girl just dey look me with one eye like dat. sorry about ur money

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  6. LOOL...U're funny.
    That wud pain me o...big time.
    Think of it as a pay back to the money that you found...lol..God has a sense of humor, maybe it was even that person who took urs from the ATM.

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  7. Hugs, pele dear...that would pain me too

    Have a lost money? yes...and it wasn't a good feeling!

    I've also food money before, a good amount of money too and that felt GREAT!!!!

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  8. Ah, it'll pain me baje baje. I can't remember loosing money sha *bends head to d left* I truly can't & I haven't found money either
    Hmn *now on the lookout for money lying around* Pele tho

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  9. haaaaa.I remember loosing 400 quid, i looked for that money every day every night, it didnt fall out of my bag and i remeber taking it from the machine. how then did it loss? i find cry i no see. one faithful day wey man don broke na so i just play enter one cd case kpakan see my money dey look me with opolo eye. ohboy i take am do testimony for shush sef.

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  10. LOL! Couldn't help laughing though. MIne is sort of forgetting the ATM which always comes last. Well, I've found money before in this same ATM scenario. Ran after the dude and the way he thanked me severally was embarassing. I understood the unbelief in his eyes sha.

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  11. This happened to me before when I was in wellington. I had withdrawn the money; took my card and forgot to take the cash. I remembered 5mins later but despite my Usain Bolt speed, sorry dem don pick am. lol

    Pele. Na the osho free money wey you pick that day come back com haunt you. lol

    - LDP

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  12. LDTMB... Sisi Yemmie ooooo only you! What! Tell me that money was not three digits, no decimals?

    Every kobo lost in this recession is a huge loss

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  13. wow, must be really painful. pele...ndo...

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  14. awwww sweetie kpele. i've lost money before at a time when i was so broke and i cried like someone died...lol.

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  15. aww,sorry about your money..that ish can be painful. Lmao about turning to goat.

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  16. awww. sorry dear. I've lost money several times...but I've never taken someone's money before sha, because I know how it feels like to loose it. Plus, Na Naija I de, make I no turn to goat or yam jare on top how much.

    Lol!

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  17. ooooo......nne sorry,I picked your cash :p and I dont need it more than you do,I am not broke LOL

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  18. Lol...almost forgot my money after removing my card this money but,God no allow cos it was ma house rent and I woulda gone to heaven and never return.Meanwhile I've found money o,osho free money in d parkn lot @ my office and after calling my hubby to come meet me at our favorite chinese restuarant that I have a suprise for him,I go bash anoda person car in my excitement...imagine!it was so painful buh I still enjoyed ma chinese.

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  19. Pele sisi yemmie, i can only imagine. Unluckily, i have never found money before sha and even if i do, i go just dey look am, the fear of turning into a rabbit won't allow me.

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  20. sorry about that,its just natures way of helping someone :) sucks i know but you been on the receiving end once..*this might be late but i like the new Blog look*

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  21. Sorry about that! My rule is that it is okay to take your time at the ATM, don't let anyone's heavy breathing or sighing make you rush your transaction. You got there first, after all. There's also the possibility that the money found its way to someone who really needed it.

    I once lost $600 (it was actually stolen). I opened my bag to pay and my wallet was missing! I got carried away because I was trying clothes on and left my purse (briefly!) on one of the racks. The attendants were saying that another shopper probably stole it but my mom wasn't convinced, she openly accused them. I got back home and locked hands in prayer with my 5 year old cousin, strongly believing that heaven would hear her lol

    The next day I went to query the manager and I got it back! Apparently one of the attendants dipped her hand in my purse and took my wallet to the back, leaving it in her locker. The manager replayed the video for us (surprisingly) and gave me my wallet with the money intact. I was so grateful!! God heard our prayers :)

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  22. i hate that atm system too.i had in two circumstances almost dashed my money to someone but as camera full this my school nobody wants to be called a theif they called me back to come and collect my money,lol lucky me.so now i no dey forget cos i like money.*who doesn't*

    yes i have lost money before and e pain me well well just as e pain the person way loose money way i pick,lol.

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  23. Chai! The story dey pain me as i dey read am sef. Soz. I've never forgotten money at the ATM but i have misplaced a few. I pray like you that someone who needs it more than me gets it with my blessing - yeah I am generous like that.

    Some of the stories are plain hilarious!! e.g. Abby and Chinese dinner - See Eve, Adam and apple!! lol

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  24. There was a time I was so broke I was looking forward to spending the last 6k on my for two weeks if possible* covers eyes*. I dint over-do myself as I spent the first N500 buying breakfast and airtime, and evn had to tuck my change deep into my bag. You can imagine my shock as I sweated profusely after turning my bag over during my search for the missing N5,500! It was so painful I kept ran back to the canteen just to replay my steps and ended up parambulating. I cried silent tears as it was still 2weeks to payday.

    On another note, my cousin found an envelope at the bustop containing N30k. After so much deliberation she gave the money to charity. On getting home she recounted the story to me and all I could say in fury was "charity na person?!"

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  25. that kain thing dey pain. i took danfo one day very early in da morning, gave the conductor 1k thinking it was fifty naira. I wan mad when I reach house.

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