I often
write about humorous aspects of life that I chance upon on my travels or
amusing discoveries I make while making my way in this world. But allow me to
steer away from this for this moment to tell you a tale that amused, shocked
and frightened all in one go.
11:55pm
It was a
night like no other as I watched my favorite cooking show as women do while
lying on the couch as I sipped a cup of strong tea to ready me for sleep only
that I did not get that far. Feeling too tired to get myself to bed I decided
to nap for a while on the sofa as I bargained with my will to muster up the
energy to carry me to bed. I was soon
out like a baby from a warm shower on a bottle after being hyper active for the
entire day.
3:59am
In the
thick of the night I came to consciousness for a brief couple of seconds to
turn in the sofa in which I now lay only to pick up sounds in the background.
For a moment, a part of thought I was hearing things as they were so low they
were almost inaudible to pick up. My brain quickly started to filter out every
single sound in the entire house allocating to whichever home appliance may
still be on or item such as fridge, phone, TV, door squeaking you get the
point. Only that this time the TV was off as I had turned it off before I dozed
off, the doors were all locked as I had grown accustomed to doing so that did
not squeak in the night and my mobile phone was on silent.
I became
even more attentive and listened to all the sounds outside trying to convince
myself that I was hearing things and I should go back to sleep. Only that this
time when I isolated all the other sounds I could hear silent screeching from
outside, my paranoia kicked in and I tip toed to the window as if not to scare whatever and whoever was
outside. I honestly did not think I would find anything as I first looked at my
car right outside the window and it seemed pretty intact only for my gut
feeling to kick in as I went to the extreme end and took a look in the
direction of my neighbor next doors’ car. I did it almost as an afterthought
while I was pulling away from the window only to be shocked at what my eyes had
come across.
4:02pm
There was a
lean framed young man in fitting clothes comprising of a yellow shirt with a
maroon sweater and navy blue skinny jeans peering through the glass of his car.
I was so stunned by his boldness because there was a security light just above
him. All I could muster at the time was to hit the window violently so that he
was made aware that I had seen him but I did not utter a word since I am not
the uber- feminine type who ululate and scream. He ducked to get cover and
disappeared from sight as he waited it out until an hour later when I was
asleep - or so he thought.
I waited
for the inhabitants of the house and car I was defending to come out and walk
around and aid me in ensuring that we show our presence so that the thief/
thieves would not come back but no one did.
But owing
to my adrenaline boost, I could not go back to my sleep that was so rudely interrupted
by him at 3:00am. I transferred my duvet from the room and laid it out on the
living room carpet and waited to make sure that he indeed was gone.
5:10pm
Again I hear
the little almost nonexistent sounds I had heard once that were now all too
familiar and yet still easy to miss. I walked silently to the window and peeked
through once again only this time what I saw was a little different but more
dramatic. The lean gentleman of the night had found his way to the inside of the
car and was in the passenger seat with a flash light busy at work. My
adrenaline turned to rage at how impudent this lad was - he really had the nerve
to actually come back a second time. Now this time I hit the window so hard I thought
I would break through the glass and this time I screamed.
Me: “Gwe! Gwe!”
Thief: …… (Continues
to flash his light in the car as he attempts to continue work both quickly and
silently)
I do not
think he heard me so I stepped it up a notch as I was a bit of a distance away
from him and the fact that he was in a car did not help.
Me: Eh gwe
mumotoka, nkulaba
Thief: “………….”
(He looked in the general direction of
the voice he was hearing for a few seconds and then began to exit the car)
Me: “Vamumotoka
gwe, gwe, gwe, nkulaba ngenda okuyita polisi bakutwale.”
Now this
threat would have been very non-threatening aside from the fact that we have a
police post about 250 meters from our house, so I can see why he ran off.
Thief: “…………”
5:22am
The thief exited
the car and closed the door rather gently as if not to wake its owners who were
dead asleep and then he covered his face with his hand and passed under the
window from which I watched him and run behind the house. Had I not heard a
thud a few seconds later I would not have been a little reassured that he had
scaled the over the back wall and run off. I did call the police and they
instructed the police post closest to us to come to check it out, they never
did.
7:00am
I lay awake
up until daylight and woke up my neighbors’ so that they could check and access
the damage done the previous night since they did not even come out to support
me when I was chasing away a thug from making off with their car parts. I was
shocked at how calm she was almost frustrated and defeated at the thought that
she had yet another part to replace and said my husband will replace it. She has
been robbed before and it was actually when she had a guard around so she fired
him, so it poses the question – how safe are we this festive season if they
policemen at these police posts cannot even care for their respective zones and
divisions.
Must we first loose our lives!
6:00pm
PS: I am
still waiting for the police to come and check out the scene of the crime, let’s
hope that they do sometime this year or I may have a thief sleeping right next
to my window pretty soon.
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