morning, betty called to inform me that
she and her brother are on their way to
the airport going to abuja, I felt bad as I
bid her farewell in a 12minutes
conversation, I got to the bank and
resumed for the day’s work. we always
have team connect sessions every fridays
where members of each team would
come together between 7:10 am to
7:45am to discuss and deliberate on
various challenges facing the team and
each member and how to tackle them.
Before the commencement of the connect
session, I was on my seat when
funmilayo entered the room, the 6 other
staffs and I who use the main floor
greeted her as she entered the room, she
just waved at the air with a straight look
on her face saying “good morning
everyone”, when she got to the entrance
of her office where my desk is located,
she stopped, looked at me with a grin on
her face and said “good morning
onihaxy, how are you now?”, I looked at
her and replied “I’m fine funmi”. she hit
her hand on my desk and said “So how
are you? Hope you have settled the issue
with your girlfriend who was giving you a
concern yesterday?” , I smiled in silence
as I don’t know what to say, she looked
at me and said ” it good you are now
back to your normal self, be a good boy
and don’t forget what I told you
yesterday”. I replied “Ok ma”. She then
cat-walked into her office and banged the
door. When I raised up my head, I saw
the other 6 staffs looking at me in
amazement and the mouth of two of
them was widely opened. The lady at the
extreme corner gave me a sign to come
with her hand waved at me, As a senior
colleague, I obeyed her, stood up and
walked up to her. Before I reached there,
two other ladies there had drew closer as
if I was been summoned.
” Are you related to funmi?”
” Is she your sister?”
” Are you guys living in the same area?”
The 3 ladies whispered to me
simultaneously at the same time, I just
smiled and replied “not at all, I met her
here as my boss when I resumed this job,
that’s all”. The lady who called me said
“nawa oooo, its so rare to see funmilayo
stopping by at a junior staff’s desk to
chat with him or her, or calling a junior
staff to her office for conversation. even
we wey dey her for over two years, she
had never acted this way to any of us
before”, I just looked her and smile. The
other ladies said “maybe their spirits just
worked together”, the third one said ”
maybe funmi likes him”. I just looked at
them and smiled as I stood up and
walked out of the floor to attend the
connect session, ***chaiii, women and
gossips sha******
I got to the meeting and the news of
funmi inviting me to office for lunch the
previous day was still trending among
my team-mates, I had to quickly correct
them before they put me into trouble
“Abeg oooo, she only called me for an
assignment ni oooo, no be for lunch
ooo”.
We all laughed over it and everybody
returned to his/her desk after the
session. At the closure of the day, I had
a long chat session with betty as she
told me that she was already in Abuja,
bimpe also called to remind me of my
visitation on saturday the next day.
I tried calling and chatting segun to
update him about bimpe’s invitation but
his number wasn’t reachable and
messages weren’t delivering
” Ooooooh, as I couldn’t reach segun
now, what should I do ooooo?”
To be continued
