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The last six months or so have got to be some of the worst I have ever experienced. And it has nothing to do with the Mabira forest give-away, though, as I will explain later, one of my cheekier friends found it a handy excuse for his “unmanly” actions.
The problem I have with the last few months is that they have made an orphan of me. No, I haven’t lost my parents or guardians, thank God. But I have, figuratively speaking, lost quite a few friends. For some weird reason, they have all decided that they have had enough of this bachelor life and – to use the expression of one them – signed themselves into a safe house.
Don’t get me wrong; I am, of course, happy for my friends. If anything, their “brave” actions are living proof that there is hope for some of us who, from what I hear, have been completely written off in some circles.
What has alarmed me, however, is the speed with which they have been abandoning ship (one of them described it as the “sinking bachelor ship”). You just excuse yourself to go to the loo and by the time you return, some girl is walking them down the aisle. It’s like they heard Jesus was coming and got busy.
With old friends jumping ship at such a fast rate, I have been left, to quote from Philly Lutaya, “alone and frightened.” Alone because you can’t count on a married man to show up for a green one.
Or to stay long enough when he shows up. Indeed, a couple of them have abandoned the green ones altogether! And frightened because I am beginning to think that one of these days, I too might find myself in a jail house without knowing how I got there.
I have, of course, tried to understand what epidemic has hit them, but none of them seems to know. “Man, I can’t believe this is happening. I think I am sleepwalking or something,” one of them told me.
Another one had an even dodgier explanation. Given the rate at which His Excellency is giving away all things Ugandan, he said, he had decided to grab himself a girl before the said Excellency gave away all the Ugandan girls to some sort of investor.
So what will be the Wang excuse when (note we didn’t say “if”) the hammer finally falls? Stay tuned.
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