SECRET OCCUPATIONS OF OUR PARENTS THAT I'VE DISCOVERED DURING ISOLATION

A male voice saying, “pay your rent” was what I woke up to early one morning. I’m sure many of you are wondering if I am really at home, especially during this period. So to answer your question, yes I am at home and it was my father asking for rent. I kid you not people of God, my father is now my landlord and he came to demand for rent earlier this morning,

This has led me to believe that our African parents have secret occupations and I will shed some light on the few that I’ve discovered during this isolation.
My father is a landlord and I’m guessing we can all guess what landlords in Nigeria do.

 So he collects rent, controls generator time, and can do anything in his house e.g. playing radio at a very loud volume just to elicit a reaction from us, the innocent tenants.

My mum is a doctor, pharmacist, and with the way she’s going she will soon find a cure to Corona virus.

My mum is positively disposed to herbs and herbal mixtures in whichever form they come and avoiding her in this house has become like Tom and Jerry.

My parents are secret detectives.

So background story, I watch a lot of crime and action movies which is not my parents’ favourite genre and that’s putting it mildly.

During this isolation, they’ve learnt to put up with me and I find that they’ve become detectives since they now comment during these shows (which are usually wrong btw). Sometimes they go, “the man in black definitely killed him” but the man in black is an undercover agent, so I just keep my mouth shut and then when it’s all revealed, they are like, “what just happened?” or they just look away.

My parents have gist.

During this isolation, I’ve discovered that my parents have a lot of gist, some juicier than the others. You will also find that they sleep late now and press their phones more.

So now I’m wondering, what happened to all those lectures about how bad phone is and how sleeping late affects the human mind?

My parents are food critics (and since we cook, we know it best)

restaurateurs, politicians and even counsellors.

On a serious note, they give the best advice but the part that gets me is when they give advice to people who aren’t present. I do that too but it’s me so I excuse myself.😊

My sisters are comedians and terrorists. You must be wondering how something so good is merged with something so bad.  They all know how to send you errands.

Wonder no more, my sisters are the best, I mean they can make you laugh but they can also terrorise your life, I’m sure anyone with siblings will corroborate this story.

My father is apart-time lawyer (not by book), he has not stopped talking law with me, me that I just want to laze around and forget all my school books.

We are all part-time artistes, I mean we make the hit songs.

Side note: my parents now do not mind dressing up,

watching shows and even appearing in videos and taking photos something we had to force them to do prior to isolation. God is mighty!!
Feel free to drop a comment about any secret occupation you have also found out about your parents.

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Thanks for reading.
LOVE,
❤
OMO AYAN