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I was at West Mall the other evening, when I happened upon this six gang of old male friends who have been pals for as long as I can remember. We joined four young ladies who were being ‘held hostage’ by this senior manager as he waited for the Gang of Six to join them. I stayed just long enough to have a quick bite of the piles of nyama choma they had ordered that seemed to come in rounds, had one can of Carlberg then fled before the tidal waves of Jameson whiskeys they had asked for began to breach the beach.
What struck me was that when I first knew these gentlemen, we were all just out of college, all unmarried, and while it may be very ‘bromantic’ the way they have stuck together, their ways unchanged, three of them are married, the fourth is re-married, the fifth has a long term fiancee and only one of them is ‘forever single.’
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