Cow Girl

It all started with one song, twenty-one pilots' ''good day'', this plays in the background as I commute to work looking dapper, well at least in my mind.

The weather was cool, it wasn't raining, I was getting a free ride to work, what more could I ask for? As my playlist spanned from 'good day' to 'Hakuna Matata, I sang along in high spirits. But it all took an anti-climactic turn when I finally arrived at work, now here's a little backstory. I'd been having a little stomach upset the night before and I didn't think much of it, well because I always have a little pain in my stomach every other day.

Anyway, as I got into the car that morning I decided to button-down my jean because I felt like It was contributing to my stomach upset and soon forgot about it as I sang my jolly way to work.

It shouldn't come as a surprise then when my pants literally fell from my waist as I stepped down from the car. I felt this rush of cold and quickly grabbed my pants up as the people behind me were laughing, I had no option but to laugh at my silliness too, oh well it was still going to be 'a good day'. As the day went on my stomach upset became worse, but I endured as I went about my workday, even going out to run some errands. Well, a colleague also wasn't feeling well and took permission to leave early, and we were asked to all leave early since it was a Friday.

Glad to go home, I quickly rushed to the pharmacy to get drugs for my stomach upset. As I walked on to the bus stop, I saw a herd of cows. If you're not Nigerian and you're wondering why a herd of cows should be walking on the express road, that you'd have to research. Well, at least they were on the walkway.

As I walked further, I noticed a lone cow that was lagging way behind the herd, unfortunately, we had a moment of eye contact. I knew it was kind of weird as the cow looked at me for what I thought was a little prolonged. I got an eerie feeling like someone was following me, and before I could turn, someone coming in the opposite direction screamed ''your dog is following you!''. Only for me to turn around and see the lone cow running after me, mooing down the walkway and I did what any sane human would do, I RAN!.

Now, I do not know if it was the colour of my shirt (Black) or the extended eye contact that made this cow think I was family!. I ran to the nearest group of guys I saw on the road and clung to them, for some reason this made the cow stop and take another road. Imagine my relief and embarrassment as I detached from these strangers and brisk-walked to the bus stop before everyone could start talking about the cowgirl.

Finally, I got to my stop as if the day couldn't get any worse, the rain immediately started pouring down heavily, perfect timing. I came down and had to walk the rest of my way home under the rain which fell for the next two hours. So I got home drenched, with an upset stomach and trauma of somehow being an attraction to cows, it was a good day indeed!.

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