Must Read: Mechanic

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Mechanic

That was how I started plaiting hair for people in the village, making little money out of it, I would go to the villagers to advertise that I’m a hairdresser, I was doing more of home service then, I would go one house to another to ask them if they would like to plait their hair, I was getting customers, parents will bring their children to come plait their hair, I was getting popular in the village because I was the only hairdresser at that time, people will come from other villages to plait hair. Money was coming in one way or the other, I don’t have a shop or a saloon, I was doing it in front of our house, I pasted a hairstyles’ wallpaper on the wall for people to select the style they want. Registration had begun in school but my school fees wasn’t completed, I’ve saved money from my hairdressing business but it wasn’t sufficient to pay my school fees, I was attending lectures tho but not done registration yet. Two days to last day of registration, my money was completed, not really completed tho, Martins helped with some money to make it completed. That was how I paid my school fees, attending lectures, no money for textbooks, but was photocopying textbooks of my classmates, turning it to handout,I wasn’t dressing very well to school, my dressing was so shabby, I doing repetition of clothes, so I never really had friends cos I wasn’t looking so tush, who want to make friends with a village rag dressing girl like me. I continued my hair business in the village cos I was going to school from home, our village is not far from the campus. I was making money from it, feeding my son and helping my grandmother out of it, I needed a shop but I don’t have enough money to get a shop, you know God does his things miraculously, I got a shop, a free shop, it was one of my customer that gave me a shop for free, she gave me the shop out likeness cos the woman likes me and my son, she liked me because I was hardworking. God bless that woman, she gave a shop in the market place, the shop is an old dirty shop, abandoned shop, I just had to manage it, before you know it, it was growing, my shop was getting developed.



Parents were bringing their daughters to come learn how to make hair in my shop, I started having apprentices in my shop. I humbly advertised to students and classmates to come make their hair in my shop. Students were coming to my shop to plait their hair cos so many students were living in our village, people were queuing to make their hair in my shop. I was growing, I got hair dryer and so many instruments in my shop, my salon’s name was “Cha Cha Hair Saloon” Cha Cha is a name given to me by Martins, acronym of Charity.



Thank God my mother sent me to learn this job in my aunt’s place back then, my aunt was a very versatile hairstylist so I learnt a lot when I was with her, sigh! The way God does his thing.



I enrolled my son to a nursery school, taking care of my grandmother too, my parents didn’t even know what was going on cos they didn’t bother to check on us, they’ve abandoned us totally.



I didn’t even care about them anymore cos I was enjoying my life as a village girl. While in my 3rd year, I opened another shop in another location and I also moved to a bigger shop.




I didn’t have any friend during this period, I wasn’t interested in friendship thing cos I was focused as a single mother. I began dating Martins after so much begging, he was serving in another state when I accepted to date him, Martins deserved it cos he’s done a lot, we didn’t have s*x cos I don’t have the time and he was also far away. I was happy with Martins but his mother was frustrating my life….