Spoon in The Pocket

The high school days were full of fun, and the amazing thing is that my dad normally calculates my feeding and running expenses (i.e allowance) based on the number of weeks in a semester.

The semester is always about 4-5 months, which is approximately 16-20 weeks. So my dad would do his arithmetic and always come up with an amount for me to spend every day for that 16-20 weeks. This simply means I have a daily spending limit, and any attempt to spend more than my daily limit will have a direct effect on the amount I should spend for a particular day.

At the beginning of every semester, most students and I always live like kings and queens. We spend big, go shopping, eat whatever we want, and engage in a series of activities that will make us spend money, and so on.

When half of the semester is gone, our spending limit would have diminished drastically, and at that point in time, we cease to eat what we desire but eat whatever comes our way. During this period, we consume lots of cassava flakes, even with or without sugar, so as to minimize our spending to the fullest.

Towards the end of the semester, 85% of students in the college are dead broke while a few of them seem to have food stuff to fall back on. For those who were broke and have no food stuff, they tend to introduce the method of carrying a spoon in their pocket.

The idea of carrying a spoon in our pockets became very popular when the semester is almost over and most students are super broke, out of food stuff, and have little or no food to eat.

So we keep walking around to see if any student is cooking or eating. When we finally find someone eating, we say hi, give a compliment on the food, and then ask politely if we can join them to eat. If they do not decline, they will invite us to join them. We don't really have to run around to get a spoon because the spoon is always readily available in our pockets. After eating, we clean the spoon and put it back in our pockets.

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