It is what it is

Its been pretty much a dark month for me yet. A lot of unpleasant events have taken a toll over my life. I choose not to dwell on them in detail but talk of my day today.

I had a scheduled business meeting at 1000hrs which I found myself late for. My colleague Pearl just chose not to complain about it. I woke up at 0715hrs, Bae had texted this lengthy message since we had some issues to straighten. I took my time to respond to it and lately I’ve been really drained with our relationship. Its not really about him, rather it was just me in my worst state. This is one weakness I have, I can’t fight for a man. If you piss me off, I am not scared to ask you to hit the road. At times such an attitude is not necessary. Thankfully Bae is still able to stand my blues.
My plan was to be out of the house by 0830hrs but I found myself 30 minutes late and knew I was going to be super late for the meeting. When I got to the bus stop, there was no transport so had to rush to the next bustop which is about a kilometre away. It took me 10 minutes to get there and was fortunate enough to find a ZUPCO bus. I was in town by 0945hrs and it took me 15 minutes to get to the office.

Apparently the meeting was in Msasa, so Rusere our driver had to take us there. We arrived at the meeting 20 minutes late. Good thing it went well. After 30 minutes, we were done and back in town. I had some catching up, I needed to do with the driver so I remained in car.
We talked and talked then the police just showed up and asked why we were parked there. They asked for my traveling pass and next thing they got in the car and directed us to the Central Police Station with charges of dangerous parking. We went there, then they asked for US$5 instead of just writing us the ticket for our offense which was worthy US$3. Rusere refused to bribe them and agreed to pay the fine. When he got to the paying desk, they then changed the charge to why the car had temporary plates. Apparently his car was bought this year and there has been a backlog on number plates to be issued at the CVR so 2020 vehicles had been granted permission to travel without them. When he told them that, they said it was just temporary so the car was impounded!!!
I then called a police friend of mine needing assistance, she simply said “Dai mangovapa $5 yacho.”
What!?
It got me thinking. Will corruption ever end in our nation 🤦🏾‍♀️?.
The greater part of my day had to be at the police station, trying to get ways to get our car out. But it was all in vain regardless the fact that CVR was still saying 2020 plates are not available.