Do you remember your first time? How was the experience? I certainly remember my first time and each time I do, I laugh at myself. Oh my goodness! I was so naive about a lot of things. I am pretty sure I am still naive about some things.
Before I take you down memory lane, for those of you whose mind work like Google if you type "your first time" on the search engine, kindly take some scrubbing powder and scrub your hearts. No! I'm not talking about the first time i had sex.
Sometime last week, I read a post by @princessbusayo on shaRwarma. Don't mind that the 'R' is in capital, I was instructed to spell it that way😄. While reading through her post, it brought back memories of some crazy first time in my life and I promised I was going to share these memories with you. You can laugh all you want. Allow me to take you through each event as they occured in my life.
The first time I used a seatbelt
The first time I used a seatbelt wasn't the first time I rode in a car. In Nigeria, people do not use seatbelts a lot and most times, those that use are the driver and the person sitting beside the driver. The rest of the passengers at the back do not use it because it is either non functional or well, it's not in us to use the seatbelt at the backseat of a car.
On this special day, I had a date with a guy I've been admiring for a while. In my location, I don't come across too many guys that are my spec. This one was my full spec. I was so excited that he felt the same way about me and asked me on a date. He arrived on time to pick me up and I hopped into the front of the car, ready for an adventure of a lifetime. He asked me to wear the seatbelt. I have never used a seatbelt but I wasn't going to share that information with him, not when I stood the chance of him seeing me as a local girl. I pulled the seatbelt from the pillar loop and noticed it had two belts, the sash belt and the lap belt. The sash belt was to go through my shoulder and diagonally across my chest but I didn't know that. I thought if it was for protection, I should be in the middle and so I placed the sash belt over my head letting it fall to my back with me in-between as the lap belt went through my lower abdomen and I buckled it. My date looked at me and was like "That's not how to use a seatbelt. The sash belt should be in front and not on your back. It is meant to pin you to the chair and not you hanging in the middle of it". Just know that was the first and last date we had. Well, at least I learnt how to use a seatbelt.
First time I ate ShaRwarma
Yeah! I've heard so much about shaRwarma before I actually got to taste it. I had travelled to Lagos to visit a guy I've been dating for a few months and he decided to give me a pizza and ShaRwarma treat. I won't talk about the pizza because I had just one bite and I didn't want another. He bought the ShaRwarma and handed it to me. I couldn't wait to unwrap it and eat and so I removed the aluminium foil and saw the flat bread or the Pita whatever you call it. In my innocent mind, I unwrapped the flat bread and scooped the contents with a spoon into my mouth. He didn't bring any spoons with him but I had the spoon from my ice cream scoop so I was good. All these while, ShaRwarma to me was wrapped salad with diced meat. You should have seen the horror in his eyes when he saw me unwrap the flat bread and scoop the contents into my mouth. No! that wasn't the end of the relationship. 😜😜
First time I made vegetable soup.
I believe every country has their own version of vegetable soup but in Nigeria, our vegetable soup is as the new implies, all vegetables with little or no water so when you eat, you are basically eating lots of vegetables with different types of protein. I wanted to make vegetable soup and I asked a neighbor of mine to help me with the list of ingredients. She gladly listed them and told me how to make the soup. I journeyed to the market, came back a proud woman and made the soup just how she taught me but to my greatest surprise, my vegetable soup wasn't looking like the vegetable soup I know. What I saw in my pot was a river filled with greens. I ran to her with a plate of the soup and she marvelled at the sight. After laughing so hard, she remembered she didn't mention the fact that I was not supposed to add any water to the soup because the water leaf as a vegetable contains enough water which ought to be squeezed out before adding it to the pot. Thank God my male neighbors came home very hungry. At least my money wasn't wasted.
I'll stop here today. time. Watch out for the second part of my first time. Until then, have a beautiful new month♥️
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