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Doodling around bad habits

Chew, Swallow then talk!

I have encountered several people who seem to have thrown their eating manners out the window. I remember when I was young and those days we would all sit around the table waiting to be served, there would be no talking, no eating at whatever cost. The talking was left to the grown ups. It never got to me then why the hell we, the kids, were not allowed to share jokes while we ate. Why should I care you ask?? Well, because it simple is irritating for someone to eat, chew loudly, with their mouth open and talk before they can swallow,while they talk splattering little bits and pieces here and there........and that's not gross? I bet you have met people like that.

Well, the fact that we are moving into a fast paced world does not mean that we have the right to speak with food in our mouths? It is not hard to swallow the food before you can speak. Put yourself in the other persons shoes when she/he speaks and a small bit of food splats onto your cheek, how disgusting. Of course we can be careful and no food splats but a full mouth sounds terrible during a conversation. You tend to be unclear and improper pronunciation of words become the order of the conversation.
Men watch out! you are the culprits of this bad habit.


Thank you, Please and excuse me
3 simple words but how hard they are to use....

Yap these three words are one of the (what should I say here?), most important polite words that must be in every one's vocabulary..? hmm? Has someone ever come up to you and say:

"Bwana si you get me 6 redz (Six hundred shillings)? I will pay you at the end of the month..."

Where are your manners you wish to ask, but this might be your boss so you just hand the dude your 6 redz.. You even do not dare wait to hear a ka thank you, coz in the first place if the dude or dudette did not say please, what really makes you think he is going to give you a slightest thank you? Forget it!

Excuse me
Have you been in some queue, in a bank or supermarket and someone just shoves past, pushing you in the process or when someone is seeking clarification on something they just go:

"Hey! just check this out what do you think?" Irrespective of whether you are busy, on phone, have a client or doing something you are actually engrossed in? The person will insist on talking to you or showing the "burning issue"..Like it is a life and death thing? People please where the hell are your manners? I know someone once told me that I have to be multi tasked. Must be trying to justify their behaviour, yes, its good but you cannot be multi tasked in that sense..or kindly correct me here if am terribly wrong.

Have you tried asking someone a question and they go 'eeh' in process twisting their mouth like a sneer almost that you wished you did not ask them or even worse "mbu ki ki" or "ati nini? or ati?" What happened to I beg your pardon?

Borrowing
I know someone who has lost his personal things this way.. Yes people RETURN WHAT YOU HAVE BORROWED! The Oxford Learner's dictionary meaning of the word borrow: to take and use something that belongs to somebody else and return it to them at a later time. But here's the Ugandan term of borrowing as: to take, use and spoil something that belongs to someone else and keep it for good irrespective of whether the owner needs back.If they really really want it back give it to them in its sorry state.

For such people do not lend them your things again ever! But on the other hand in what state do you return borrowed items? Some people's hands do have a habit of spoiling each and everything they touch. Not by their own doing but by their hands own doing. Like there is anything like that.

Enjoy

Quote for today

To succeed in a new field, make a new discovery, or do anything new in life, you have to be willing to fail.

Telephone etiquette

"Tring ring ring!"
"Tring tring trinnnnnnng!"

"Am coming! Eeeh?!" I insist.

Sounds like the person on the end of the phone is desperate, by the continuous irritating hi pitches.

I rush to pick it up, it might be an emeregncy, I think.
So out of breath I answer:

"Hallo?" No answer.

"Hallo, Mama B here."

Still no bloody answer!...Cat caught your tongue, I almost ask but think twice about it. It might be a prospective employer. So I wait for the caller to answer.

I hear a murmur on the other side. Someone in the background insists that the caller must speak. So I try to make it easier and ask,

"Hallo, can I help you, please?" I insist.
The line goes dead.

What a waste!

Hardly, five minutes go by than the shrill ringing starts again.
I answer almost immediately....

"Hallo?" MB
"Haro" Caller answers.

Good, now we are getting somewhere..

"Yes please, can I help you?" I inquire

At last the caller finds his voice and and bellows:

"Haro? Haro? ono noha?"

"I beg your pardon? Who do you want to speak to? I ask impatiently.

"Ono noha?" Caller inquires.

"Who would you like to speak to?"

Murmurs again on the other side and the phone goes dead again. Shit!!! I start swearing to myself if that phone rings again I will not answer. But is it easy to ignore a ringing phone..tried it but failed miserably.

Like this is not my day...another ring.

"Halo?" I respond again
"Ono noha? nyenda Furanka..hati mugambire..."
"Sorry this is a wrong number and this is not Frank"I reply
Before I can even suggest to the caller to check the number he is calling the phone goes dead again.

Phone number can never be guessed. and it is bad to assume that the person on the other end understands the indigenous language of the caller. It is indeed less cumbersome time saving when we all communicate in English.

Some people just do not know how to communicate on phone..
Introduce yourself then get straight to he point.

I think a proper phone call of a wrong number would go like this......

"Hallo" answers Mama B
"Hallo, this is Joe here and I would like to speak to Frank,'' Caller
"Sorry Joe this is a wrong number you have called" Mama B.
"Thanks" Joe
Call Ends.. What do you think?

Corporate Dress down days

Hooray, its Friday and I don't have to wear the dreaded uniform.

Friday is corporate dress down day. A good idea I must say, after all I have been so stuffed up in my suits and uniforms the whole damn week. So, come Friday morning I will put on my mini hipster skirt, high platforms, hold my hair loose so that the wind can blow it away from my face while I strut around the office like Naomi Campbell, swaggering left, right, left and right doing an imaginary catwalk.

Some companies have come up with Corporate T-shirts worn over a pair of trousers or skirts but of the same colour and this I must say is very smart. Other companies have come up with dress down the whole week but its ONLY on Fridays when you must put on the full corporate suit. This is unique and one of a kind.

Lucky for me, where I work, staff can dress in their own clothes or even uniforms, to their hearts' desire. Dress codes seem to have been thrown out the window when it comes to Fridays. But it is casual Friday so why the heck not dress down? The question is how much dressing down is dress down? I will redefine smart casual as, for the guys; a shirt hanging over a pair of faded jeans which hangs loosely around the butt, snickers (that have not seen water in the past few months) an ear ring on your left earlobe. Did I forget a heavy gold chain dangling from the neck?To touch it all up, shades hanging on the forehead.

For the ladies; I will get "igs"(ignored) for even mentioning anything. So let's leave it out for now.....but small advise: check out the mirror before you leave home on your corporate dress down day.