I love cooking and really intend making a few bucks from it, after all, the bible says, ‘your gift would make a way for you’ right? I have tried the cooking business several times and have come to realise that I had to know more than just cooking, there is a business within that business that is a different ball game entirely, so as usual, I went to the people that play the ball; this lady is everything I want to be and more, food wise. She had a class that was going to commence in October, so I told her, I was interested. She gave me her programme and everything did not fit into mine, I really would have love to attend her class but I had really good excuses not to, I mean concrete excuses
- Location– She was on the mainland and I was on the Island, after school run
- Date : October was the date of her program and my kids being in different schools had their public holidays from 16th to 30th
- Time: Omg! it ls like my village people did not want me to attend this cooking class at all, it was from 12-4pm, imagine me leaving the mainland by 4pm and my kids close from 2pm, how do i do school run.
- Baby Sitter: I have nobody to watch my kids, as I just had a crazy scare from my previous maid, she pretty much was a criminal mind. Hmmm… That story I would share another day, because it feels like I was a part of an Ice bucket challenge that left me numb and I still cannot find the person who did it
So you see I had very good excuse don’t you think so? I think so too…
So I kept giving this lady my excuses and she was like ‘chai’, ‘sorry’,’ayah’, really allowing me to explain myself and seeing reasons with me, then in the bid to convince her to change her mind(as the world revolved around me). I asked when she would be free, so we could talk more and the Lady said in a polite way, ‘sorry, I am not free the whole week and cannot pick a call today, as it is my mum’s wake keep….’ This is where you go, “excuse me let me faint” Now that you have fainted, Let me continue. I was so shocked, I have been chatting with this girl for days and she has been nothing but polite to me, keeping to her words, when she says she would reach out to me, she does and above all running her business with such grace and class, then I have been giving excuses on what is and what isn’t . I felt so silly, what was my excuse again? Go back and look at it, it all became useless to me, are they valid? Yes, but can they be worked around, of course…You either let your excuse define you or you define your excuse….Eh aunty, what is your excuse again ?
