OUTRAGEOUS SCENARIOS
BY Matthew Dike
LADY
1.Death penalty awaits any thief caught in your community. You have sworn with your community’s deadly ‘juju’ that you must reveal the thief that stole a missing ring. Now that you have found out that the culprit is your own father,
DO YOU…
- Tell your kinsmen the truth that the missing ring was stolen by your father?
- Refuse to tell the truth and allow your community ‘juju’ to kill you instead?
- Advice your father to commit suicide?
2.You love this man you are carrying five months pregnancy for so much. Now that you know that this same man is the person that impregnated your younger sister in the city and ran away,
DO YOU…
- Abort the five months old pregnancy and break your relationship with your lover for the sake of your sister?
- Give birth and allow your lover to marry both you and your sister?
- Marry your lover and tell your younger sister to forget about her relationship with him?
- Your mother loves you so much that she did not see anything wrong with your waywardness in spite of your father’s warning. Now that you are pregnant for a man who has denied the pregnancy, and your father has told your mother to pack out of his house because of your behaviour,
DO YOU…
- Pack out of your father’s house in your condition and follow your mother?
- Fight your father for disgracing your mother due to your behaviour?
- Attempt suicide?
- Your hot tempered husband has just caught you with a man he suspected you of dating carrying you in his lap. He has vowed to kill you if he meets you in his apartment. He has gone out now to have a drink, so,
DO YOU…
- Just pack your belongings and disappear from the house before he returns to attack you?
- Decide to stay put and beg him, after all, you saw him wooing a beautiful girl?
- Commit suicide out of shame because your parents had warned you against this marriage?
GENTLEMAN
- It was few days to Christmas and some people are accusing you of shoplifting, an allegation you have debunked because you did not do it. Now that the mob is attacking you, ordering you to confess or they will kill you,
DO YOU…
- Accept that you are a thief, even as you are not?
- Prefer they kill you instead of accepting to be a thief when you are not?
- Decide to commit suicide yourself than to face such shameful accusation and humiliation?
- Your only sister (no brother) in this world has been arrested for pushing hard drug and she’s likely to spend the rest of her life in jail. Her husband is worried. There is this security man who can save her only if he would have carnal knowledge of her or no deal.
DO YOU…
- Tell her husband first so that he will give her the permission to have carnal knowledge of the security officer?
- Disagree with the security officer and allow your only sister to go to jail?
- Implicate the security officer, lying that the allegation was a set up?
3.You are a casanova who has impregnated three women six months ago.. The three women are in your one room apartment now and are not ready for any abortion, insisting that you must take responsibility. and marry them. Now that you are an ordinary cleaner in the office,
DO YOU…
- Marry the three women when you know you are finding it difficult to feed yourself?
- Deny impregnating the three women?
- Escape, abandoning them and go into hiding?
- You were a multi-millionaire who lost all his wealth gambling. Since you are an illiterate with a large family and the only job available to you is bus conducting,
DO YOU…
- Take up the job of a bus conducting after all your pride and wasted wealth?
- Refuse to take up the job of bus conducting and allow your children and wife to die of starvation?
- Commit suicide?