Story 4

 Bebes welcome to another one of MOSS ..

This happened when Moi was a bebe herself .Way before mama could mouth Akon's lyrics like a pro and annoy the F outta her parents. I was barely 4 if my memory's serves me correct. Just an innocent happy soul,unaware of the creations of nature and nature of creations.

Before we delve any futher , a word of caution.

This story may bring such strong cringe moments that you may curl up in a ball and the sweater that shrunk last winter in your washing machine maybe a size bigger for you by the end of it.

Also contains weeee bit adult content.

So let's start...

The story begins on a cold night when mama a 4 year old toddler was ready for bed but didn't want to sleep.

Like all toddlers I was more interested in my parents affairs than my own which to begin with ,there was hardly any beyond eat,shit,sleep repeat.

My parents wanted to umm 'settle' for the night while I didn't want to. Do whatever I just didn't want to sleep. Haven't you my adult bebes with lil bebes noticed that kids would get ultra naughty when you wanna get 'naughty'. It's like the sirens in their head go blaring warning them of potential 'competition' for their parents attention.

So I guess my sirens where going haywire & I refused to sleep. To get my parents off my back I put on an act of falling asleep.

See some of you sentient beings might have had this  "I really want to forget seeing this but can't" moment wrt your parents.

And as such with these moments you can guess what happened next . 🙃

Mama woke up to see her production company going heavy at it. I did the most horrific things possible . I started wailing LOL.

My dad oh the sweet man held me consoling saying that there was a 'tiger' in the house and he was just protecting me mum against it. Really? You protect your wife and not your offspring? Why not because you can have one more of me and mourn me together haina?

Believing the tiger story to be true mama ACTUALLY went to sleep scared and shaking. Talk about childhood traumas kids!

Next day I go off to play at my cousin's place where I was having a tete with my uncle who would humor me A LOT.

Convo goes thus-

Me - gooo ga ga bla bla "uncle do you know what happened last night?"

Uncle- what?

M-A tiger came to my house and tried to eat my mum. Didn't it come here?

U- *probing further * and? What did you do?

M- Nothing, I didn't see it. Dad did and he tried to protect mum by lying on top of her.

U- ummm aaahhh go play with your cousin now. Go. Very soon you may have someone else to play with too .

The story doesn't end here guys.  It gets cringier ,not for moi but for moi parents.

That evening dad came to get me from my cousin's place. Uncle was there ofcourse.

A very short and sweet convo ,one that my dad will NEVER forget.

U- Is it true?

D- What is?

U- heard there was a tiger out on prowl yde? Came to your place too

D- Red in the face , with an expression that said "If it were a real tiger, I still would  have saved your mum" hehe nothing Lil mama and her stupid imagination hehe

Years later I pray for forgiveness in my heart when my son gives me a very hard time . Karma pays you after all eh?

Moral- Make sure you vault your doors,lest there's a tiger on prowl.