Kenyans and their peculiar habits

While my son was a candidate at last year's KCPE exam, I didn't bother to send a nervous text message to the number given by the exams council. I didn’t bother rushing to the nearest cyber Cafe to check how he performed, either.

It's not that I didn’t give a hoot. It’s just that I knew, from experience, that every parent, child, aunt, distant uncle and whatnot would be doing the very same thing all at once, causing the gizmos to jam, which is exactly what happened. And I knew it would be worsened by the same parents sending more text messages and attempting again and again to log onto the KNEC website, when they knew all too well that it was futile, making the whole circus even worse.