07/04/2024
No matter what, I can never feed somebody's child.
I was eating and this baby who is so fond of me was just staring at me, I could remember her guardian calling her out of my place when she saw her standing by my side when I was about eating.
The baby girl actually refused to leave so I continued eating my food and then this guy happened to walk into the office to make inquiry at the same time.
So as he saw me eating, he asked why I am not giving the child the food? So I told him that this is 9am and I am very sure the child mother fed the child before dropping her off with the other lady and also the child is not hungry. I didn't want to talk much.
So the guy said I should look at the way the child is staring at me that she just wants to eat the food even if she is not hungry that I should give her small to eat, so I told him I am not giving her and it's just a food I bought from a vendor which ofcourse is not even enough for me, I didn't cook it myself, and he said I am stingy and I said "yes! let me be stingy and save myself the stress", And he asked what stress am I talking about?
I told him I can't feed the child without the parents permission but he concluded that it was nothing. It was obvious that he didn't understand my reasons for not giving the child my food so I explained to him and I kept on insisting that I can never feed anybody's child except my blood or relatives.
I shared the experience I had concerning being a good Samaritan to him. Although, I didn't have to experience it myself but I learnt a very big lesson from the events that unfolded, because when it happens, so many people would not believe you even the very person that once laughed with you would turn to your sworn enemy especially as you never born your own pikin yet.
Something happened in February in one of the shops in my neighborhood, a lady fed her neighbor's child without the mother's knowledge and when they child mother later went home with the child, the child suddenly devel
