Neighbours 44

It is said everyone of us has a past.Our pasts vary.Some of us were always on the 'provisional' noisemakers list.This was a pre-written list that could be handed over to a teacher on duty who paid an impromptu visit to the class and demanded the prefect to name the noisemakers.I have a confession to make.Long time ago while televisions were still televisions(read:greatwall),Hussein(not his real name) and I used to watch some favorite soap opera called ''Love is Timeless''.We were ardent fans,we couldn't trade anything for it.The problem was that the tv had so many ailments.Being the electronic engineers(read:fundi wa simu),we possessed some skills on repairing the tv.Our other friend was in the tv repair 'division' in the same workshop.One day the tv was 'admitted' in the workshop still on the very day were to watch the soap opera.Because we were born boys and God put in us a software called adventure..nothing could stop us from watching that day's episode.We wanted to know what would happen between Arrabella and Christian.We made our way to the workshop at night to atleast catch the episode.We watched the programme almost halfway,we felt heroic.The tv never made it to the end of the program.It started producing some smoke like a train before it went blank.We learnt our lesson.Sometimes I think that Neil Armstrong was my relative.After replacing my tv during the weekend I found out it didn't have the 3.5mm audio output slot.Having the HDMI ports i thought I could modify my HDMI cable until it worked for my creative 2.0 woofer.I was curious to know what this HDMI cable had that I couldn't modify.I took the knife,cut the cable so i could loop two audio cables and use it.On cutting I discovered the cable had 14 insulated wires running across.This was a dead end for my escapades,I swallowed my pride,yes I had just mutilated a cable worthy Multi-hundreds of shillings :(I didn't also tell you I met Njoro our former house agent.He couldn't hide his smile meeting a long time faithful client.Life seems to have taken a tall order on him,but he was well.I thought we owned a 'cool' cat,I was wrong.This cat tries to classify garbage,worst enough if you ate meat.It makes sure the bones lie right in front of the door.I have to get used to forgiving this cat because it has made our place a 'no rat zone' too.Finally, how I paid the 200bob to some non existent garbage collectors only time will tell..I think that guy has studied alot of ethics in conning,he even issued me a receipt.Lets leave it here,I got my lesson..at least it wasn't a bungoma stainless wheelbarrow..lol :)Enjoy your week ya'al