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Yes folks, we did it again. We returned to the infamous Shadows. That is the same place where we waited 3 hours for our food last week. No one is admitting to who suggested that we go there again. I don’t blame them. The group would probably tie them up in the street and stone them. It started out fun just as before. This time Allen’s brother was with us. His name is Ally too. He was a delight. He was helping me with my Swahili. It is definitely coming along. I can understand more conversation now.
Well, we were joking around as always. This time we were giving Ally #1 a hard time about his delightful way of taking things from others. For instance, the other day I had some leftover food from a restaurant. He saw it and exclaimed, “Oh, what is this? This looks very nice – beans, rice and greens. Oh for me? Oh it is very niiiiice. Thank you”. Then he just takes it for his own. And for all who have seen the movie Borat, Ally says “very nice” just like him. It is hilarious. So, Chris decided to pull the trick on Ally himself. Chris did the whole scene with Ally’s lovely leather jacket which just happened to have Ally’s prized possession in it – his “Brackberry” as he likes to call it – BLACKBERRY.
Chris proceeded to wear the jacket around the restaurant and strut his stuff. I think Ally was going to have a coronary because he was apart from his “Brackberry”. He continued to laugh and said, “I am not worried. I will get it back.” After this we all came up with a wonderful vision. What is Ally’s house like? Is it piled high with other people’s stuff? We all had a good laugh.
All this was happening and still no food. After an hour, Allen went back and talked to the cook. It would be ready soon they said. We questioned the meaning of the word “soon”. After another 45 min, they went back to the cook – again, it would be soon. After 2 hours, Chris started spazzing out threatening to eat the person that he had known the least amount of time which happened to be Allen’s brother, Ally. Finally, my food arrived which consisted of ugali and greens. All five of us shared it. Ugali is like grits and greens are spinach. So just envision 5 grown adults sharing this, eating with their hands. After 10 minutes, another plate of food arrived – the chips mayai, potatoes and egg. At this point Allen was furious and ran back to the kitchen and cancelled the ordered. Then it took another 15 minutes to get the bill. Of course it couldn’t end there. Allen saw the price of the ugali and pitched a fit. He said there was no way it could cost that much. There was some quarreling between him and the server, Devota from the other incident. Finally, we left and we all vowed never to go back.
Through the entire thing, I kept reminding everyone of the importance of patience. Actually, I was very adamant and reminded everyone that there are people who don’t eat for days and we could all learn from this. Chris wasn’t buying it and neither were the others, but Allen’s brother and I kept a smile on our face. We had our food, but we were kind enough to share with the others.
Overall, I thought we had learned from the last mistake, but apparently not. What is the saying? “Shame me once, shame on you. Shame me twice, shame on me.” And that everyone is today’s lesson – “SHAME ON ME”
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