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1. When that your unemployed uncle is trying to lecture you about school.
2. When you’re about to travel and your mum says “I had a dream…”
3. When you hear your father’s horn at the gate and the whole house is scattered.
4. When you open the icecream container in the freezer and see egusi soup.
5. When you’re playing outside without slippers and you see your father’s car approaching,
6. When that aunty that hasn’t seen you since you were born asks “do you remember me?”
7. When visitors come and your mum starts bringing out food and drinks you didn’t know were in the house.
8. When you open the container of Danish cookies and see needle and thread.
9. When your father tells you to come and play with that cousin you don’t like.
10. When your mother that warned you not to eat anything at her friends house starts saying “eat na”.
11. When you say you can’t find something and you hear “if I come there and find it…”
12. When your mother calls you by your full government name.
13. When all your friends are going out but you’ve already gone out this month.
14. When your mother tells you to clean your room because visitors are coming.
15. When your parents finish beating you then start asking “why are you crying?”
16. When your watch your mother price a shoe from N15,000 down to N1,500.
17. When you ask your father if you can go out and he says “go and ask your mother.”
