Tell your story#21(I Think I Have Been Robbed )

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This week, I really understood the true definition of inflation and it downright shook me to my bones.

Everyday time I go to the market to buy groceries, I come back with one surprise or the other, but this week the feeling was totally different.

I felt like I was robbed, but the way and manner with which I felt I was robbed is still very much a discovery.

Good question though, was I really robbed in truth?

I went to the market with 100,000 naira to stock my home, my brother's, as well as my mother's. This plan being in my mind, I was totally astounded that the reverse was the case for me. I came back with just two polythenes containing the food stuff instead.

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This got me feeling concerned and worried. I practically paid for everything with my card, so am debit alert could be traced.

While I was on my way home I told the bike man driving me home how I felt because he had asked me earlier if everything was okay because he noticed I had been thinking out loud.

My thoughts where everywhere in the market, trying to figure where I might have missed it, but I finally decided to take the bike man's advice.

He advised me to go home and take stock of what I had bought before coming to conclusion of what had really happened at the market.

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When I got home, the first thing I did was to start adding and subtracting.
Before now, I could buy a paint of crayfish for 3,000 naira but now it's 9,000 naira, rice 4,000 now 9,000, beans 2,000 now 9,000 naira, big tuber of yam for 800 naira now 4,000 naira.... and the list goes on and on.

I have finally gotten the answer to my question. YES I WAS ROBBED INDEED.

Now the question is WHO ROBBED ME? NIGERIA DID.

The corruption in the country did.
The fuel hike did.
The insecurity did.
The fear of my brothers who farm to be killed in their farm yard did.
The greed in people who sell food in the market did.

Right now in Nigeria, we live a country that 100,000 naira can't do much for a family of 3.

Feel free to put up the systems that rubbed you ☺️

The economy is crying to be saved and helped because in as much as her children are robbed by the systems surrounding her, she is hurt because of the pain and the voice of agony coming from her children.

INDEED I HAVE BEEN RUBBED.

My lessons learnt

After my experience one very Important lesson I learnt that it is never good to make conclusions based on from assumptions.
It was the fact that the bike man advice to go back home and calculate all that I had bought that made me realize that I had made a mistake in ensuring that actually bought everything at the right price.

You need to have plans for emergency inflation like this.

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