My Fav Books

  • A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • All the Names - José Saramago
  • An untamed state by Roxanne Gay
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Efuru by Flora Nwapa
  • It by Stephen King
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Lasher by Ann Rice
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • So Long a letter by Mariama Ba
  • The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Arma
  • The Dark Tower (all 6) by Stephen King
  • The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
  • The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Pregnant not Handicapped

One lady just walked past a queue of about 15 people at the bank of the masses😝
Expectedly, some people raised brows and voices. The lady turns back and says can't you see I'm pregnant.
I looked at the tummy, she couldn't have been more than 5 months gone at the max. I waited for the other folks to finish their responses and calmly told her: "you are one of those women that make other women look bad. This your pregnancy is not an excuse to be unnecessarily condescending and insensitive. You are pregnant, not disabled"
Expectedly, she gave me the "I don't blame you, you don't have children" reply. I smiled and just waved her off. I had made my point
The CS officer that she approached refused to attend to her and told her to join the queue. I then persuaded the others to let her go ahead. She did.
As she was leaving, an elderly man who had hitherto been silent called out after her "wait till your tummy is bigger before using the pregnancy as excuse to jump queue" 😂😂
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Here's a shout out to those of us who would use our big tummies to milk sympathy here and there. No one is saying pregnancy doesn't take a toll on you, but let people be the one to offer you sympathy don't demand for it.
Pregnancy is not an handicap. If it were, you would be on permanent bed rest.

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