Children of Today don’t even know that back in the days you could be be@ten for any of the following reasons:
Children of Today don’t even know that back in the days you could be be@ten for any of the following reasons:
- Crying too long after being bèaten
- Not crying after being bêaten
- Crying without being bèaten
- Standing where elders are sitting
- Sitting while elders are standing
- Walking around aimlessly where elders are seated
- Eating food prepared for visitors
- Refusing to eat
- Coming back home after sunset
- Eating at the neighbour’s home the whole day
- Generally being too moody
- Generally being too excited
- Losing a fight with older age mate
- Winning a fight with your age mate
- Eating too slowly
- Eating too quickly
- Eating too much
- Not finishing your food
- Finishing your food and scraping your plate
- Eating and talking
- Sleeping while the elders in the house have already woken up
- Looking at the visitors while they are eating
- Stumbling and falling when walking
- Looking at an elder eye ball to eye ball
- When an elder is talking to you and you blink
- When an elder is talking to you and you stare and not blink
- When you look at an elder through the corner of your eye
- When your mates are playing street football and you join them
- When your mates are playing and you don’t join them


So true!
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