So the status quo is that a gardener will come to our house twice a month to trim the flowers in the compound and blabla... So baba hasn't been around for a month. I got home last night and the compound looked like an entrance to a mythical wizard's castle...here's what I did..

Around 9 ish I took our garden scissors, got to work.. trimmed the hell out of the flowers and I finished a quarter past 10..good thing was I asked the maid to simultaneously clear the compound while I was trimming.. It wasn't up to 10 minutes before the gardener knocked the gate

I went in and told my Wife (Mum) that the gardener is around, btw she was ignorant of the fact that I had turned the compound into the garden of Gethsemane with the beautiful way I had trimmed the flowers...(yeah I know.. I'm bad like that)... She hissed and frowned her face...

She then went ahead to lament on how the gardener had been ducking her calls, and even charging her above the normal rate of 7k per month... She started saying If Pops was alive and blabla.. He would've done the gardening instead of them paying the gardener.. This hit me hard...

I asked how much the gardener charged her now.. She said 10k.. I told her to continue watching her African Magic... I went to meet the gardener... Here's where I channeled my inner Count Lustig and Yellow Kid Weil... I told him Mumsy was coming that he should chill...

While chilling, I brought him a cold drink, mans was happy. My goal was for him to see the beauty of the compound well.. then he talked, he said the flowers were well trimmed and that he was expecting bushes when he was coming, I said yeah.. Some guy came to do it earlier today.

Baba was startled, some guy? he asked, I said yeah.. The new gardener or something.. Then I left him alone and went inside... Came back outside after a few minutes.. Told him Mum said she thought it was D new guy nd Dat she didn't know it was him... Dat his services ain't needed

While I was telling him this, I was taking the unfinished drink off the table.. Bade him farewell and went in... He said brother ejorr ebami so fun Alhaja n pe kori be e (help me tell Alhaja it's not like that).. I said ok.. I will... Byebye.. But there's nothing I can do...

He begged me to help him beg her, I asked him to explain what happened.. He was just rambling.. Den me i told him; d way it is, it seems mum has a new gardener dat is much more effective nd punctual than him.. Also, he charges way less.. So wat can he offer dat the other isnt..

He said he'll be punctual and efficient, he said he'd reduce price to 7k... I laughed... Told him that man charges 6 or something... He said just because it's Alhaja, he'll do 5k... I said i don't know Abeg... That's we just employed that guy... It'll be bad to chase him now...

This is where I almost laughed, he said " aye n shey iru e daada", (people do it very well)... Last last I told him I'll try and persuade Mum, If she'll agree.... But we should keep our fingers crossed... Then he left... Explained what happened to Wifey...