Desperate times are pushing Kenyans to desperate antics

Young men scramble for meat that was salvaged from a fire that gutted down a butchery at Tumaini Trading Center in Olkalou Constituency Nyandarua County.[John Ndungu,Standard]

At around 4pm on Thursday last week, a heavily pregnant young lady struck up a conversation with me as I was walking through the aisles in one of the city supermarkets. I thought she must have been one of my old students at the university and had recognised me. But as the conversation progressed, I wasn’t too sure about that, and I wasn’t about to ask.  She asked me why men are always in a hurry when shopping. “I would guess that just like me they do not like shopping, so they go through it as quickly as possible,”I said.