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Location: At work (- what ’employer’ pays for)

(and actually busy and all seriousey)

(I usually can’t stand eavesdropping I don’t even like it. I don’t even do the ‘acceptable’ Lagosian gawking .

I’m laying all these down so you can be sure I didn’t even try hard to listen, it just sorta ‘filtered’ into my ears, I just did the honourable thing and surrended.)

 

(The conversation was in Yoruba, so translation’s in brackets)

 

Mr. A. is the unsuspecting man atmy end of the conversation-

 

Mr. A:.            Iyawo mi ti bi mo o (we just had a baby)

(Mr. A pauses…)

 

Mr. A:             … Eh, obirin ni   (oh, well, it’s a girl)

(Mr. A says this in a somewhat apologetic tone, then listens for a while, sighs. )

 

Mr. A:             ahh, omo sha lo mo n je (Oh, well, it’s a child after all- literarily interprets as –A child’s a child.)

(Listens, then continues-)

Mr. A:             A try next time (We’ll try harder next time)

  Ugh???