Life, Lemonade and Friends

I'm not a morning person usually, I was especially grumpy this morning as I stepped into the streets to hail a cab on my way to work. I didn't get a cab but I got a ride, a curious one. I know the driver, he works at one of the banks here in Lokoja so I didn't mind hoping into the front seat of his Honda and securing the seat belt. The music was on at max volume and no it wasn't your usual 'let's start the day on a soft beat' kinda music, the dude was blasting 'Ihe neme', 'See Kobe abi gobe', and such. Then he was going at break neck speed and nodding his head in time to the beats. I was curious. Why was he so happy? Why wasn't I that happy? Later in the day, a customer limped into the seat in front of me and he was smiling. I wasn't in the mood to smile back, I became all business-like Me: "can I help you sir?" Customer: (smiling) "I'm here to pick up my ATM card". I got his card out, issued the pin and tap tapped away on my keyboard. I'm not sure I even told the customer 'that will be all sir'. out of the corner of my eye I saw him limp away and that got my attention, when I looked down, I realized that his right leg had been amputated at the knee. He caught my eye as I looked up but he just smiled and then he said "have a nice day". Why was he smiling, he had only one leg? I had two legs, why wasnt I smiling? Today I sent a text to Wuwu. We had a huge row last week. She wanted me to apologise for something I wanted her to apologise for another thing. I was upset, I could have maybe visited a babalawo to end our friendship and I boycotted her birthday party. hmmm!!! Talk about agbayas. Truth is, most of the times it doesn't matter who is right or wrong but we're far too blinded by emotions to admit that. The happy early banker and the smiling customer made me realize somethings I've always known but keep forgetting: - Life is short, live it well - When life throws lemons at you, make lemonade (add sweetners if you've got a sweet tooth) -Friends are few, forgive easily. - Etc And if I forget all these lessons tomorrow...call me a learner. :P I bet the title got you huh?

The Rabbit, the Crow and the busy body Tiger

Once upon a time, a crow sat on a tree doing nothing..., when a Rabbit thought to do the same and sat on the ground..., a tiger came and ate him.... Moral: To sit and do nothing..., you need to be on Top... - Anonymous. I had this annoying supervisor, I always thought he sat at his desk doing absolutely nada. Everytime he gets memos asking him to render one report or another, he forwards it to me with the message 'FYA' (For your action) or 'Please attend to this' or 'Please deal' very annoying cos I have papers up to my neck to deal with. Dude makes like 3 times what I earn and at the end of the month I don't see him transferring some of his pay to my account. What was funny was that he'd complain bout his own supervisors, saying they had nothing doing but forward mails and send memos. Huh?! Now I'm sitting in the same chair he used to sit in (but i dont make as much o! Abeg) and I wonder what do the people I'm supposed to be supervising think of me. Do they think I'm clueless like I thought my former supervisor was? Well I dunno bout the head that wears the crown but i can say for certain, shaky are the hands that authorise transactions in the bank. You have to be extra careful or some transactions from the past will come back to slap you in the face. I've been a Rabbit these few months, once or twice the Tiger bit me hard. I've worn my supervisors shoes, they pinch like crazy, if I could, I woulda told the rabbit, "honey don't, don't be like that. Trust me, you don't want to sit 'doing nothing'." And to all the Crows out there, you could at least try and act like you're doing something unless of course you want the population of Rabbits to become extinct. Now that busy body Tiger sef, "who send you?"

All in a day's job

I have never been so pissed (excuse my French) like I was today-not exactly, I think I have been this pissed before, heck, I'm always pissed on this job. I'm not exactly feeling this whole Head of Operations role. It's not like you get to exercise the 'off with their heads' power, by jove I'd have offed the 2 tellers heads and made nkwobi with it.

We're currently Paying Salaries  So the banking hall is full  and tempers  abound you could almost choke on it. It's all you can do not to remove your 'look at me I'm a cool assured banker' jacket and blacken some poor sod's left eye. On this particular day, Victoria and Maggie go all out to proactively engage some really annoying customers in a war of words. On a regular 'the sky is blue, the birds are singing lalalala' day, I'd have turned a blind eye to the brouhaha but this wasn't no ordinary day, I had to protect the customer who 'is always right'.

I attempted to give Victoria a good talking to but she tongue lashed my brain to scrambled eggs. My pride went from 3G to gsm and my complexion resembled a 7yr old boy's Tie and dye project.

My left side, always quick to come to my defence, said "pull off that b****'s fake weave" and my right side, ever the reasonable side said "dude, remember you have one on too,best be professional about this".

Right side was right, one embarrassment was enough for the day. So I huffed and puffed up one stinker memo, copied all the ogas at the top and waited for the storm to blow..  What I' d have really wanted to do is sink my teeth into her, but WWJD?

It's all in a day's job Innit? ;)