MARRIED TO A STRANGER
: By Mister Allen
Episode 13
He was still lost in thought when a handsome well dressed man in his mid-forties joined the queue behind him, “is this queue for the flight going to Enugu?” he asked gently tapping Jeff’s shoulders, “yes it is” he nodded turning to face him, “wow!” I thought it would be much shorter by now” he exclaimed, “I’d hoped so too” Jeff replied in agreement, the man seemed to be the chatty type and was refusing to keep quiet, he went on talking about how he’d been caught up in traffic on his way to the airport and how he’d thought he would miss the flight,he was one of those people that could meet strangers and relate with them like they’d known each other before, initially Jeff was irritated by his talkative nature but eventually warmed up to him; he realised the man was an interesting character and thought he could do with some distraction while he waited for Lara to return, so he listened as he ranted on about different issues from the educational system which he thought was a mess to how the music industry had suddenly started selling packaged noise to the consumers calling it music to how he disliked the “useless lot” called politicians and what they were doing to the masses, he seemed pretty knowledgeable and looking at him from head to toe, one could tell just from his dressing that he had a lot of money too.
“So what do you do?” He suddenly asked in between his ranting,taking Jeff by surprise with his question, “you mean me?” Jeff asked pointing at himself still thinking of what to say, “Yes you!” He said, “haven’t I been talking to you for the last few minutes?” he said with a loud chuckle, “well..” Jeff began still thinking of what to say, he wasn’t sure how to answer the question because he wasn’t exactly doing anything at that time and saying he was a house husband didn’t seem like an appropriate answer to the question as much as it was true, he knew a moment like this would come when someone might ask him about his career but he never knew it would come so soon so he wasn’t prepared.
“I run my own telecommunications company” he found himself saying, “really?” his talkative new friend asked with his eyes lit, “sounds interesting! What’s the company called?” He probed further, “erm, it’s called Jay telecoms” he replied with a smile, “that’s interesting!” the man said again nodding his head slowly, “so I guess business is taking you to Enugu then or is that where you live?” He asked, “business?” Jeff began, “nah! Not really.
I’m actually not the one going to Enugu, my wife is” he said, “oh! Your wife is here to?” The man asked with a surprised look on his face.
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