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Meet The Parents

Posted May 11th, 2006 in Reflections by M

[EDIT]
The lads will undoubtedly be familiar with this experience

1) Meet nice girl (Pearl)
2) Get a good thing going with Pearl
3) Meet parent of Pearl
4) Feel like chicken before hungry crocodile before Father Of Pearl

Apparently there is an unwritten rule that goes as follows:

The man good enough for my daughter is yet to be born and should be discouraged on sight.

Next to “Be fruitful, fill the earth and conquer it” men generally follow this rule with ruthless efficiency.

Bill’s Story

At the tender age of 5 Bill could safely be described as slightly more advanced than his peers in the kindergarten. His teachers found his intelligence engaging. His male friends found his shouting and roughness endearing. His female friends found his good manners a welcome change from the pushing from his male friends.

So it was with a feeling of confidence that he accompanied Pearl to her father’s car. Father of Pearl , a man in the military slid out of the car and advanced upon them. The look on his face was not encouraging but 3 years of teachers fawning over him had blunted his senses of fight or flight.

Bill extended his hand for a greeting and waited expectantly. Father of Pearl extended his hand, spun Bill around by the shoulder, swung a powerful foot back and buried his big black army boot in the seat of Bill’s shorts, shooting him 5 meters back in the direction he had just come from.

Boots

Bill is still recovering today, several decades later.

Jim’s Story

Jim’s opinion of himself was a very high one, thought it was not shared by many. Pearl was certainly one of those who agreed with him, and against her better judgment, under the influence of his engaging smile, allowed a Form 2 boy onto the premises to ‘hang out’.

Father of Pearl looked grimly on from his sofa as his only daughter and a boy whose underwear he could see, whose enormous jeans were practically at his knees and who had a vest on top of a T-shirt and several layers of jewelry swaggered into the room and sat down on his best sofa, negligently swinging a leg over the other and nodding casually to him.

“‘Sup” Jim said to a full Colonel in the Kenya Army.

Those who knew Father of Pearl well knew the sudden appearance of a vein on his right temple was not a good thing but Jim was blissfully unaware and thought nothing of his sudden departure.

Sword

Within a minute Father Of Pearl was back with a very large, very shiny sword. Placing said sword on his knees he proceeded to polish the gleaming steel, all the while staring directly at Jim.

Jim was suddenly very self conscious.

After ten minutes Father Of Pearl started sharpening the sword.

After 5 minutes Father Of Pearl grabbed the sword by the handle and stood up.

After 5 nanoseconds Jim produced a sonic boom as the departed swiftly from the premises.

Bob’s Story

Bob was better placed to counter his Father In Law, as he was a Lieutenant Commander in the Army and was just as adept in arm to arm combat as he was in weapons combat.

Mercedes Bride Price

But he had no way of dealing with the casual demand for 1 (one) Mercedes S Class, 100 (one hundred) assorted head of goats, sheep and cows and a small house in return for his daughter’s had in marriage.

Personally I think such antics are insane. Completely insane. It is in my best interests to know exactly what my daughter is doing, and who she is doing it with (no, not that way, nitwit!!!) I encourage her to bring all her boyfriends, friends who are boys, study buddies, tutors, etc to my house and engage the same in friendly banter. It is good for everyone if I know who are these befriending my daughter. During which i will find out who they are and most importantly where they live.

This will be very useful information when I am informed that my teenage daughter had disappeared on a trip without my consultation, or my teenage daughter has fallen victim to a smooth talker and is expecting a surprise in 9 months, or when i move faster than my daughter and pick up the phone in time to hear a 16 year old schmuck say “I’m in boxers — what are you wearing?”

AOB

Jacob Zuma

The guy has supporters?! I’m speechless. SPEECHLESS!! What is WRONG with people?!

Way Back Then

Fraggle Rock

I’m reminded of way way back when you were either in the Muppet Show camp or the Fraggle Rock camp. Me? I shamelessly played to both galleries. Seems there’s a Fraggle Rock movie in the pipeline! Hmm :-?

Tom Cruise

I’ve always thought the man’s a bit of lot of a schmuck, and finally people are coming round.

Knight Rider

Knight Rider

Anyone who says they didn’t like the very very cool Knight Rider is clearly talking through the wrong end of their anatomy. Seems a movie is in the pipleine

Kit

PIC OF THE DAY

Nitwits

Look at these nitwits (Image From the East African Standard) fooling around with a grenade! And the other nitwits in the background looking on!

Santana & The Product G&B – Maria Maria
  • http://prousette.blogspot.com Prousette

    one!! yaay!

    :-P
  • Ms K

    LOL I saw that!!! Ebu put for me that ka-smilie that chekas with its legs in the air over here.

    Fanks!

    =))
  • bankelele

    Fathers in law are to be avoided as much as possible. Tom Cruise has been a wierdo for years, but they should leave Knight Rider alone and not mess it up more with a movie.

    As Agent Smith would say, it is a matter of “inevitability”.

    They’ll probably muck up Knight Rider if they made it into a movie. Though I can’t see them mucking up the car if Batman Begins is anything to go by

  • http://prousette.blogspot.com Prousette

    A secret to all ye prospective victims; meet Pearl’s mother first and make sure you win her over. She will put in a good word for you and the terror unleashed will be minimal.

    Father Of Perl is conditioned to ignore anyone and everyone on this particular issue. Plus, Mother Of Pearl may not think much of you either!

    Zuma does have supporters, and plenty of female admirers as well.

    I guess it takes all kinds to make a world!
  • http://www.guessaurus.com Guessaurus

    =)) =))

    I believe the in-laws should neither be seen nor heard – but that’s just me

    And me! But there are the exceptional ones ;)

    Tom Cruise is a cringeworthy member of the ..er.. cringeworthy society…

    :-&

    Nick – where are you? This movie business is your forté..
    As for Zuma – *nothing to add – its all been said*

  • http://www.ajkenswi.blogspot.com Adrian

    lol @ “sup” to a full colonel

    thanks prousette for the advice…

    tom cruise? http://www.freekatie.com

    Now why didn’t I think of that!

    Free Kenyans from Members Of Parliament

    I have this fear that a knight rider movie wouldn’t work out. ebu we wait and see how the miami vice movie turns out…

    Me too. Nowadays Hollywood tend to make ashes of the things it touches — look at Charlie’s Angels, Incredible Hulk, Dukes Of Hazzard, etc
  • http://wachirasam.blogspot.com sammie

    When worse comes to worst, just excuse yourself like you are going to the toilet then duck! And run like hell!

    Prob is, what if the loo is inside??

    All bodily functions except for breathing and circulation are suspended while dealing with prospective in-laws

    Sad to see full grown men playing with ammunition.
    Picture perfect.

    The damn fools!! A GRENADE!!
  • Spekta Seif

    He he! I can relate all right! I can relate!!!

    Sasa, what would you do if a grown ass man was stalking your daughter online?!! =))

    Tsk tsk, do i detect a hint of current affairs there?
  • http://www.kenyanmusings.blogspot.com KM

    How now do I come at such a position….. aiiiii.
    Off to read

    Uzee, my dear, uzee! :))
  • http://www.kenyanmusings.blogspot.com KM

    LOL @ pic of the day……LOOOOOL…

  • Gitonga

    Ah, sagas of in-laws and weddings. Picture two cultures (Kenya and Cameroon) coming together for a wedding in a third culture (the US) and what have you? The makings of an epic. I will urge my friend who was caught up in this to share his saga. Dude slept seated in his car close to 4am the night b4, got up in the morning, donned his tux and went to church for his wedding at 10am. In-laws, verily, verily! Oh, the whole experience, right from initial negos up till the I Do’s reminded me sana of The Concubine and all that wine carrying. I called it English Literature Paper 2: Practicals. By the way, a year later, bride n groom are happyily living their lives in Kenya, so it did have a sweet ending…

    Ouch! That there sounds like a recipe for disaster! Probably the time in his car is the only peace the poor dude got!
  • http://www.kabinti.blogspot.com kabinti

    The pic of the day had me cracking up!! Front page news online and the guy is bila protection pointing at a live grenade!!! Njeezuuz at least he had his moment in the sun :o)

    The grenade would have given them heat all right!
  • http://www.spicebear.blogspot.com spicebear

    woiye, the horror a guy goes through with a girls father is only equal to the trauma women go through in meeting prospective mother in laws.

    :)) Hmm…

    this reminds me of some friends of mine whose father had a tendency to chase boys away from his house with a nyahunyo. he was bessed with three beautiful daughters and no one was worthy! one day he came home unexpectedly in the middle of the day and found a whole gang of neighbourhood boys drinking his juice, watching his t.v and chatting up his daughters.

    “mboys,” he said, “there is a time for everything. a time to eat, a time to sleep and a time to go. NOW is the time to go.” he went into his room and by the time he got back with the nyahunyo they had all scattered out of the door, slippers and all left behind ….

    =)) 10 nil!
  • eclipse

    :-) :-) :-) M ur outta this world……..fathers in law…been there and it aint pretty

    the nit wits with the grenade….ONLY IN KENYA

    ZUMA???? no comment…did u hear his testimony..ati the chik wanted it and that no Zulu man worth his name can leave an unsatisfied woman who is begging for it unattended…what nerve…!

    Indeed, only in Africa!

    KNIGHT RIDER……i have the PC game for it….cant wait for the movie..

    If they don’t much it up that is!

    Mission impossible….all the movies havent been all that..but we all have to agree the series was off the chains!

  • http://chondima.blogspot.com Sarah

    M, that pic of the day.. made my day :-) LOL What was that guy thinking? or not thinking? and to think that these are the people supposed to protect & serve us! Woe unto us!

    Woe unto them and their nearest and dearest! The clowns! A GRENADE!!!!

    Zuma, what more can possibly be said?

    Enjoy your day & keep ‘em coming.

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    Well at least I haven’t gotten here at number 40sumthin!

    First of all when it comes to fathers’ and their daughters, that is another mine field altogether.Fathers don’t seem to realise the more territorial they are with their daughters, the more likely she is to come home with a bun in her oven planted by some young casanova!

    Hopefully someone will learn a thing or two!

    And as for those demands come wedding time!I have heard of some where you would think that the boy was marrying a goddess!

    If the worst comes to the worst — AG’s chambers!

    Oh as for the dads who come armed there is one I knew who used to tupa an almighty sucker punch after niceties if he found you talking to his daughter.Woe unto him when one dude blocked that sucker punch and proceeded to beat the stuffing out of him!

    As for camps, I will not lie I too was in both camps!I want to see how the Knight rider movie looks like but I guess I will have to make do with the Miami Vice one that is coming soon!

    Smart man! Why do we have to choose? Fraggle Rock Muppet Show Mbele! I propose a merger!

    As for the Zuma case.I dont want to start blogging about it here!

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    Oh:It seems our cops are getting more and more intelligent!From handling criminals’ weapons without fingerprints they are now handling grenades in the open with no training! God please dont let them find chemical weapons lying around!

    The nitwits will probably “Sniff sniff sniff — what could this be? Nerve gas?”
  • http://www.randomgirlnextdoor.blogspot.com Girl Next Door

    That whole ‘meet the parents’ routine is terrifying for any dude meeting our fathers. As Spicebear pointed out, we also freak out about meeting potential mother-in-laws. Women can be just as brutal! I think that’s when people question exactly how far love will take them.

    As for those outrageous dowry demands, diplomatic relaz who are good at negotiating come in handy. So Zuma is acquitted of rape, dismissed from his job, and yet considered a frontrunner for elections when Mbeki steps down. Unbelievable that a man who quotes his culture as being a reason to force intercourse with a woman and thinks taking a shower afterwards will protect him from STDs would even be considered fit to lead a nation.

    If that guy gets nominated, leave alone win the elections, it will be a triumph of mediocrity over common sense!
  • http://Nakeel.blogspot.com Nakeel

    The Inlaws washana nao.. its a freaky meeting.

    Lol at the Pic and tunasema tumeerevuka all those people could have been blown.

    In fact one of these days i’ll blog about a similar thing i witnessed some time back …
  • Ms K

    LOOOOOOOLLLLL that pikicha!!!! Auuuiiiiii now what was that guy saying?? Ebu let’s have a caption competition!!

    And si you know what else I’m raffing about this morning!!!

    >:) I’m nothing if not versatile. Now I apparently can be in two places at once!

    Ebu tell me how to weka that smilie dammit!!

    The same way you put them in yahoo messenger!
  • muthoni

    v funny post as usual. can’t wait for knight rider the movie, david hasselhof was/is *the* man :)

    He he! Kumbe some of us have vested interests in Knight Rider?
  • Brainz

    Thisis some Phat stuff u have put her my guy. and good taking us back down memory lane.
    Knight Rider was just the one.

    I’m sure half the guys who read this can still remember the ka-theme music!
  • http://www.chezmamamia.com/blog Mama Mia

    LOL@jim’s story.

    I think Tom Cruise is a little toooo cute…

    Knight Rider was exciting stuff back then, but would it work outside the context of the 80s? Tried watching some reruns of other 80s series like ‘Hardcastle & McCormick’ and they seemed a bit lame.

    :-? There’s always a risk … but there have been a few successes …
  • http://gishungwa.blogspot.com Gish

    Lesson: Dont take a military man’s daughter or a runners daughter now that they are faster than you are. I just hate the crazy dowry that is demanded who pays for the son who went to campus and yet the girl is paid for bythe money who is marrying her?

    True, true!

    For those idiots next to the grenade thye must be the same ones who fondle the gun after busting thugs and expect ot find finger prints how dumb dot hey come?
    As for the shows lol at memories VOK at 4pm, black and white TV

    It’ll be light years before we get our own Grissom :(
  • http://udi-m.blogspot.com Udi

    M, i have been wanting to comment about the Standard Picture. but i cant find myself being able to control laughter. yaani a guy is pointing at a greenade and striking a pose. That should be made into a movie right there.

  • I

    WAHAH AHA HA… that grenade ought to have gone off.. just to teach fools a lesson..

    Knight Raider.. do you know anyone who used to tape Knight Raider.. i miss that show.. that was the ish!!

    This is one of those moments that it sucks to be a DUDE!! how do you get the Army Dad’s little girl?!?!? I say find ways to bribe them.. esp if they are in Kenyan politicians at the moment.. just go a head and give up that paycheck and you are set after that…

  • http://www.stunuhjay.blogspot.com Stunuh

    Youi know that picture send me into tears every time. It doesn’t matter how many times I visit the blog. I mean seriously considering the probability of human error handling that thing I would be in Mombasa until I heard the grenade was detonated.
    As for father’s in law that reminded me of what my math Teacher in highschool used to say, always look for a Fat mother in law, it means she doesn’t talk too much!?!

  • http://www.2bnileavenue.blogspot.com Degstar

    knock her up before you go meet her folks if her dad happens to be in a profession that mandates him to carry a firearm. then he will want you to make an honest woman of her. how did that grenade come to be sitting on that post?

  • http://farmgal.wordpress.com Farmgal

    that cop’s pose reminds me of those pics house gals used to chukua pointing at some huge flowes..only in this case that mr nitwit cop is not a flower and neither are u a house maid. ;) who trains the kenyan police?

  • Bertha

    Hi M,

    I just wondered your opinion on the Mental/Poi stalking issue. I don’t think KBW members are treating this matter with the seriousness it deservers. As someone who has received uncomfortable communication from this individual, I feel very hurt. This is a very serious matter, and it is very fitting that there is discussion on the sexual harassment bill.

    Bloggers were very willing to rip out Joe’s throat for some very trivial issue like blog awards but they are suddenly silent on this matter. Why is this? Sexual harassment, on-line or not, is a very serious matter and it is irrelevant whoever you are — whether you are a blogger or an administrator. Why should someone be treated differently because they started the blog ring?

    Personally I am very disappointed at the turn of events.

    The admin team appears to be impotent or unwilling to act so I cry for Poi and all the other bloggers who have been victimized by this individual. I know for a fact that she is not the only one. Why aren’t they considering involving the police?

    Yes, I am not posting using my usual handle, and I am posting here because you seem to be independent and don’t toe the popular line but most of all, but most of all because I hope you will speak out against this on behalf of all the harassed female bloggers.

    This harassment must stop, the fact that it is on-line does not make it any less serious!

  • Shiroh

    Try meeting Baba Shiro

  • Shiroh

    Since i have been absent, ebu i go check my groupie list.

    The pic shows that Kenyans handle things a bit too leisurely.

  • Obi

    @ Bertha – Sorry for the distress

    But still — you have to give a nigga props where props are due. Starting KBW was one HECK of a way to meet chicks =))

  • jogoo wa shamba

    Man:Vet,i need you to cut my dog’s tail
    Vet:For heavens sake!!why on earth do you need the tail to be cut?
    Man:My mother-in-law is visiting us tomorrow and i dont want her to feel that she is welcome!!
    ..you would be lucky to get Pearl in the first place and even if you do,it doesnt stop there.in-laws,in-laws,in-laws,what more can i say?:(

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  • http://www.sidaki.blogspot.com sidaki

    First of all, Tom Cruise is not a nitwit. The man is clearly suffering from a hormonal imbalance that is affecting his behaviour. Katie Holmes is also probably drugging him.

    Second, if you are coming to see my daughter, meet her outside areas of my influence. And if my plans succeed, then you would have to see her in Iceland or something.

  • portia

    THE GRANADE??????
    someone should teach the cop about ballistics.the “photographer”isnt all that clever either.if it had gone off,the wananchi woud have probably request for foreign help,to contain the disaster

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  • munyanta

    kenyan cops!!!! ati he is feelin sweet coz he is possin with a grenade. what r they taught at kiganjo!

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