Goldie’s right thumb scratched at something under his chin near the neck. “I can’t believe I haven’t known her full name yet”, he muttered and clenched the keys harder. He had found her exactly where she was said to be at that time. She might have been more engaged by the Telenovela on Bukedde but he had approached her towards the end of the episode so it could not have been that. Somehow, none of the other girls were in the common room at the time and he had baffled at his luck.
He slowly turned and walked to the entrance and made to sign out of the visitor’s book.
“Is vel ot diz day” the female askari said in an accent that faithfully represented a dialect that had annihilated a number of syllables.
“Hot, ahh”, he said, clearly uninterested but just then his common sense got the better of him and he reached for his wallet and slid a brand new twenty shilling note in the drawer beyond the knees of the askari.
“Sencyu, offisaaaaaaaa,..eh…u’ve finis wiz yo gal fwend?, ofisa, dis work is not easy, but sencyu…”, she rambled on with a huge smile that revealed yellow coatings arced with black lines near the red gum. He felt a pungent assault unleash on his nostrils causing a sudden mutiny in his stomach.
Goldie quickly thanked the askari and headed to the parking lot. “Bseveni should give you big job in his white house sir….,” He heard her voice trailing as he pressed the unlock button of his key bundle.
#To be continued $TOH
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