Chapter 18 : THE STORY CONTINUES..

The first day I started working in the supermarket I went through hell in the hand of the other boy that answered my greetings the day I came to ask them if they needed a sales boy.

It happens that the boy is a silly fellow, so arrogant and foolish, he was acting as if the supermarket is his mother's meanwhile he was just an ordinary servant, but he was so rude to people because he was in better position in the supermarket as the first boy among the sales boys there.

That day he assigned me to clean every perfume and body sprays in the supermarket, It was a very lengthy space for perfumes and body sprays and I couldn't say know because it is work that I came to do, but it was very big for someone new to handle, he claimed he was doing it with me meanwhile I was just the one cleaning it alone and he will just come and arrange little and go out again to go and gossip and play unnecessary plays while he was claiming he is working with me, I was very pissed off but I couldn't complain because it's my first day so I maintained.

For over 4 hours I've been cleaning perfumes and body sprays till I became very hungry and weak, remember what I told you was my first instinct always, self preservation and self respect, I couldn't tell any of them or the woman that owns the shop that I'm hungry I was expecting them to give me food since they have eaten and it was already afternoon so they should have known that I'm a human being, that I need to eat but none of them said anything.

I was still working with that weakness and hunger and the person that claims we are working together has eaten twice and do not care about who he is working with, I became very angry because a hungry man is an angry man, I stopped working and came to the front with my face so cloned and clawed that everyone who looks at me will know that I'm not happy at all.

I spent few minutes sitting where the woman can be seeing my face clearly until she noticed it and asked me if I've eaten, I nearly cried replying her, I couldn't talk due to anger so I nodded my head saying no, and said ah ah why? She called the boy that says he is working with me and asked him why he ate and didn't give to someone he is working with to eat, the boy replied and said, if I told him that I'm hungry, then I provoked finally and I marked that boy dangerous from the first day.

The other boy that did not respond to My greetings the time I came to ask them if they needed a sales boy went and brought soup and garri for me and it was my favorite soup "egusi soup" (melon soup) and the food was enough that I couldn't even finish it but I made sure I ate till I was filled up.

So because I have eaten to my satisfaction it made my anger to reduce but my hatred for that boy was growing, because the boy was hateable, no one could say any good thing about the boy even till now.

We closed for the day around 10:00 PM and I went home and happily because I ate again in the shop before going home, so I was fulfilled for the day.

The next day I came to work very early and I still beat them again and we laughed over it, I was the last person in the house and I was the last person in the shop, so the errands were too much on me but I wasn't complaining to any since I was feeding fine at least.

Customers would come to the shop and ask for something then me as a novice and as a village they will ask me to go and get it just to mock me and I will go and I will not see it because I don't know what it is, It went on for a while till I started learning them all one by one, one after another I learned all of them and became an expert in the shop but that was after a million times of embarrassing myself Infront of customers for my timidity and naivety.

I have worked for three days no complain no negative complain just my timidity even though I was intelligent I can read and write very well but the practicality of the modern life was zero.

On my third day as a sales boy in the supermarket, fraudsters came to defraud my madam through me but thanks to God it didn't work out for them, A customer came to our shop and bought something that needed someone to carry it across the road and collect the money for it, my madam sent me to go take it across for the man and collect the money from him.

I crossed the goods for the man and dropped it exactly where asked me to drop it inside one ladies shop and the man was there and the lady the owner of the shop was there and I dropped the bags and returned back to the shop immediately.

Few hours later a young guy of about 27 came to me inside our shop and accused me of stealing his phone, at first I didn't get what he was saying because I don't know him, I've not seen him before in my entire life, I don't the color of the phone or the size of the phone talkmore of stealing it, what for, what do I need phone for, who are you? I asked him first, where have you seen me before? And the guy became so serious seeing that I am a village boy and a novice....