The Deadly Decisions
the gathering
father (chil)
(clear his throat) my people my people are welcome. I was I was the person who summoned you all. I thank you for answering the call to come from your various destination abandon what you were supposed to be doing just to answer my call. Please answer (he cleared his throat again) our people say that any snake seen by more than one eye can no longer be a scared python. a single person does not possess all the wisdom alone. that is why when an issue is rise and immediately everybody has to contribute so that at the end there will be a wonderful result. I am happy that the light of Peace of forefathers had lit and which was handed over to me by our late father he has not quenched and since it did not quench before or our father eat you not quench in our presence I made a promise...
mother (wife of chil)
(interrupted) that's may God forbid that there will be this unity in this family. there is nothing to be compared with peace. since ago, it's been in peace and this family has always been used as a wonderful example to others. when there is peace and unity, everybody is happy even where there is no money. I have noticed is that everybody is satisfied when a little food is eaten by the entire family with happiness then when big basin of food we are eating with bitterness and rancour. before I married I pray that God would not give me a filter from a family deviod of Peace...
father (chil)
(cuts in ) my wife, we we have heard you. I have told you time without number that to interrupt one is bad. that is the part of the lawlessness we talk about. you think it is wisdom, when I tell you, it will either through the right ear and go out through the left ear t
mother (wife of chil)
please I am sorry. I don't mean to impugn your status in the family. I only spoke because of how I feel about the issue being discussed. (she sighs) I wish I could transfer my heart to everyone of you
father (chil)
I have told you time without number, woman is known not because she is garrulous and interrupted her husband when he talk
mother (wife of chil)
(looking at her husband) please what have I done? even if I have erred, have I not apologized?
father's brother
my brother, I thought you called us to discuss something important. I am surprised that you are here now quarreling over trivial issue. If you....
father (chil)
(interrupted) kalu do you call it a triviar issue eh? you found it a driver issue that the woman I paid bride price on her head his interrupting me?
father's brother
my brother, I will tell you the truth, the obinna's mother has not said anything contrary to what you are saying so I am amazed that you took offense forgetting that a husband and a wife are one person and should always understand themselves.
father (chil)
(looking at his brother straight to the face) my brother let me ask you a question. (he cleared his throat) brother, are you older than me.
A question to answer
father's brother
(seeming confounded) I don't understand you. it is a rhetorical question to ask me if I am older than you. I don't understand the basic of the question
Nzubechi son of chil
(stand up) I am going to bed. I thought that we are called for ...
father (chil)
(shouts) Nzubechi will you sit down
Nzubechi son of chil
(sit down) father, if there is nothing you called us for, you should allow everybody to go to go to bed
father's brother
my brother, I must correct the impression you have that good woman are passive listeners.
father (chil)
my brother, what impression are you correcting when you felt to answer my question. I asked you to tell me who between the two of us is older, but the question Seems two difficult for you to answer.
father's brother
it is not that the question is too difficult for me to answer, rather I see it as a rhetorical question because you know you are oldest among all of us here.
father (chil)
thank you! have you ever heard the saying that one who started cooking first before the other always has more broken utensil than the latter.
father's brother
my brother, I know that is what you will say. but you should remember that an avid traveler is wiser than the person with grey hair. it was in the past that women's voice was to remain silent. Today, there is a holistic approach to the war against gender discrimination.I...
father (chil)
(signals his brother) brother stop! you see the type of mistake you make. no try teaches our grandfather how to suck breast.
The Argument
Nzubechi son of chil
father no matter the way you may look at it, everybody deserve respect.The man has his respect and a woman too, has her respect. That is why they say that respect is reciprocal. what's my mother said was in support of your point, why did you become so aggrieved as to...
father (chil)
(interrupts)Lawyer I have heard you. your knew you could make such argument, why don't you go to university to read law? (Giggles) never mind, deliver we still reach the dwarf where it had reached the others.
Joyce (the sister of chil)
my brother, if I tell you that I am not surprised, I am a liar. why this and sent argument about nothing? if I knew that the end of this meeting will be to talk about men and women superiority I would have stayed back. In my family my husband knows that women are not robots so he takes my advice and augurs well for us
father (chil)
in your family you said. everybody leave his life the way he like I must not follow the crowd rather the crowd should follow me. (he clears his throat) well let's go straight to the point
father's brother
you have to go straight to the point because it is getting almost too late, please be, because I'm going to work tomorrow morning
father (chil)
(clears his throat) there was something Melody told me last time he came. since then I don't know what to answer him
father's brother
what was that he told you?
father (chil)
sometime in June,
father (chil)
Melody came home and ask me to tell him the most important thing to be done, I never expected that so I asked him what he has in mind, he said he wanted to carve out another room from the parlor you all can remember that we agreed that the parlour is too large and another room should be carved out from the parlor. I told him that the plan of curving out a room was important
Nzubechi son of chil
Then what later happened
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