Too Hasty

By mcpassion

Ruth didn't know what to do, it was just a week to her final exams and she still hadn't paid her fees.. The HOD sounded it very clearly that no student was going to sit for that exams without completing any money owed the institution..

She called her Mum on the phone and the reply she got wasn't encouraging. The poor woman had tried, selling crayfish to send her to school after her Dad died, her other siblings had to quit school so she could further hers.

"Taxi, i de go highway "she said. She entered the cab,and as it's typical with calabar drivers, he was busy hustling for passengers and driving like a snail, a very Fat woman flagged him to stop "Driver highway " she said... The look on Ruth's face changed from sadness to depression.. They were already two at the back, this woman was 3 in 1.

The woman saw the look on Ruth's face and asked her what the problem was.. "madam, you should have atleast paid for a drop or buy a car, look at your size, you have squeezed all of us like sardines, and we are still going to pay thesame amount.. I don't blame you at all, it's this hopeless driver i blame, please i want to come down" Ruth alighted from the cab and threw 50# at the driver, who, surprisingly didnt say anything.

The woman also didn't say a word, she shook her head and wiped the tears off her eyes, she'd just been humiliated by someone her last daughter was older than. If only she didn't allow depression take the better part of her when her husband left her for another woman, she still would have been that sexy Amanda that every man wanted to be with, but here she was, looking like an inflated balloon.

Amanda finally got to her destination, met the woman she was to see, gave her some cash and left, she couldn't even sit to gist, she was that depressed, Ruth's words had cut into her like a knife,..

As she was leaving, Ruth saw her on the road and laughed at her, she didn't pay Ruth any attention, she wasn't going to exchange words with her.. She flagged down a cab and left.
"mama, today was stressful oh, i entered one useless taxi like That And the cab man now carried one heavy duty woman, i gave her a piece of my mind though, i even saw her when i was coming inside, why can't people control their fat, what a shame" Ruth said..

"is it the fat lady that wore a pink gown" Ruth mother asked..

"yes oh, you saw her too"She replied..

"Are you stupid? I have warned you severally about the way you talk to people, that is Mrs Amanda, the lady who has been helping me with your school fees, it delayed this time around because she wasn't in town, she even promised she was going to give you a job and asked that you see her today.. " Her mother said with so much anger...