There’s This Woman I Usually Buy Food From Around Wuse 2.
Yesterday, I Found Out Why She Never Smiles.🥹
Everybody in that area fears her. They think she's mean. Let me not lie, at some point, I also thought she was a mean bitter woman too.😭
If you delay payment, she’ll embarrass you publicly. If you ask for extra meat or sauce, she’ll look at you like you committed a crime.
So people simply buy food quietly and leave.
After all, her food is quite affordable compared to other expensive restaurants around here. How much be person salary wey I wan dey chop food from Otega everyday? 😂
Yesterday evening after work, the rain started suddenly. So, I waited inside her shop.
That was when one small boy ran inside shouting, “Mummy! Mummy!!”
The woman immediately changed.
Like, she changed completely.
She was smiling and laughing. Something I've never seen before.
Cleaning his face with her scarf.
I was so shocked to my bones. 😭
Then the boy innocently asked, "Mummy, did daddy call today?”
The woman froze immediately and lost her voice.
That one question changed the atmosphere instantly.
Later on, a woman nearby whispered to me that her husband abandoned her and their son three years ago after she used her savings to sponsor him abroad.
Since then she has been training that child alone.
That’s when I realized something, sometimes the “wicked” people we meet are just tired people carrying pain nobody can see. 🥹