Be wary of awkward expressions that dull your superb diction

While waiting patiently to talk to an attendant in a wholesale store who, at the time, was engaged by another customer, a booming voice at the back intoned, “It is how much”. Those of us who had been waiting turned to find a young fellow, rough along the edges, holding some merchandise aloft.

This peculiar habit is gaining currency in Kenya so much that some people do not bother to concern themselves with good manners. Most are always in a hurry, behaving as if they have a monopoly on life and everything around them must give way or bow before them. How else would someone whose faculties are functioning fail to acknowledge that those before him or her deserve to be served first?