aunty_nkem

My niece went through this. Took her a year to stop flinching at unknown numbers.

in The loan app called my boss

Took down the curtains and put up blinds. Small thing. The room feels twice the size and it cost 15k.

in What did you change in your own place, and did it work

The eggs. In a closed bus. That is not a journey, that is an ordeal.

in What is the worst journey you have ever survived

And the one they call consumption tax. Consumption of what exactly.

in The menu with no prices is always a trap

Say it once, early, and mean it. The first no is the hard one. After that they adjust faster than you expect.

in How do you say no without it becoming a family meeting

There is a whole year in the eighties that nobody in my family will discuss. I only know it happened because of how quiet the room gets.

in The thing nobody in my family talks about