Saturday, September 26, 2009
Abesha phone line stories.
The night is rainy. and some how slow at the station Henok works. As soon as he arrived at work, changed his uniform, change all the trash bags, cleaned the parking lot.Customers stop by to grab beer, snacks, cigaretts and some other stuff. For friday it is slow night and on the night like this he started to call the conference call for the habesha line.It was the other day when he started on the new job his friend recomend the conference call and it was kin of the hang out place for him.Most of the time he didn't like what he heard onthat line but he muted the phone from his side and skipping line after line. When he finds a good discussion, he stayed longer, if he had some to say, won't hesitate to share his two cents.On most of the line, it looks like difficult to hold up a conversation long. It will be disturbed by childish reasoning, or cursing each other or changing the subject for no reason. On this line he came accross different characters. some funny, some mean and everything in between.For example there is this guy called Mitmita. He always have something bad to say. Cursing at everyone or disturbing the line.His character is so popular even others when they feel like disturbing they change their voice to mitmita's and do what they want do or say what they say.And there is this girl called Midnight, most of the time she came around that time and starts flirting. I thought she was a drunkard buddy. You know like those girls who hung out at the bar andbe friended with drunks? She have a girl friend by the name Tinishua meaning "the little one".I don't know why she named herself the little one. Cause once she is in the room she demanded attention and control the dialog or the conversation started there.She is kind of sweet with big ego.If the conversation is going where she doesn't want the lin will be disrup[ted. This line has been about five years as i have heard. There are some guys and gal who know eachother personally, might have tried long distance relationship or once them meet up couldn't measure up to what they were talking over the phone.so they break up before they make out. So they are mad at eachother. some might be heart broken after a date or two.A lot of stories goes around on this line about couples breakup, make up and very sad coincidences.Here are some of the stories i heard on this line. This girl met a young man and fall for him over the phone. He is charming and knows exactly what to say. So they exchange their numbers and start corresponding and after some time they decidedto meet up and the young man travelled and meet the girl . Everything was crissy they enjoyed three days together and went back to their regular routine. The girl tries to call him and couldn't getthe chance not even his message box. She was frustrated. She tried to ask around about him and still didn't get the break. One day she heard his voice on the line and tried to talk to him, Told him how she was worried and some other stuff. But he told her that he changed his number and not to try to contact him ever again. The girl heart broken couldn't believe what she just heard and designed some plan to get to him and ask around about his friends and she realized one of his best friend hung out on this chat line. One day she started a conversation with one of his friend and seem to get along.She told him to go to a private line and continue their conversation for some reason the guy find this girl very interesting and wants to know more about her.They set up their own joint on the lineand the set up a fixed time and date so that they meet up everynight. After a week or so she told him that she is plannig to travel that same week to his town. He was excited and told his room mate filled up his fridge with food and some drinks and couldn't wait till friday comes.And he got to call in for his co-worker to switch schedule to cover his shift. On friday he cleaned his house.His roomie crashed with the other friend.When he is about to drive to the airport , it started to rain cats and dogs. In the state he was in the drivers are likeblonds they say they cannot drive.He was wondering why does everytime some thing important comes there will be some impediment on the way.He put on his rain jacket he sprayed fabrese and locked the door and left.Once he is in the car, put on Kenny G's the moment and starts to drive to the airport.He always starts early when he has to drive. And now got ample time to make it on time. She wore a faded and torn at the knees jeans with a green t-shirt.Her hair tied up with a pony tail and hold a light traveling bag.She was more attractive than he imagined her to be. She was like one ofthose girls who is surrounded by her not good looking girlfriends. She spot him from far and smiled. "You don't have any new amharic songs?" after she listen to the music in the car. "I think there is Zeritu's Guzo in the gloves compartment." She looked at him puzzeled. "Do you like her?" "Yes she is Ok.In fact she has a new way of singing .We are not used to it But kind of catchy." "Who else do you like?" "Gigi is the best." "Yes i like Gigi. She got sultry voice." "Have you been to Chicago before? " He wanted to change the subject . "No infact i was planning to come for the soccer game, but i had to take this week off so i came earlier." "You can come for the soccer too." "That depends on the hospitality i get this time around."That was the begining of their contact .After three days when he see her at the airport, her tears were rolling down her cheeks.He felt sadness. Everything about her was good and he really liked her.But tears? That is the last thing he expected he gave her a warm hug and saw her boarding her plane. But right before boarding she turn aroun and looked at him which feels like forever and shook her headboarded. Monday is the hardest day for Henok. After the weekend it's hard to sober up and be ready for the night shift work. The day was pretty much liquid sunshine so he knows that he gotta drive carefully,causethe brake pad on his car had to be changed on friday but couldn't get around it.So he was thinking tommorow when he gets off work, he will change the brakepads. If not for that good habesha mechaniche wouldn't know what he will do.Everytime he went for his car to be fixed. They fix one thing and mess up another part.He almost gave up on car mechanics until one of his girls sent him to this Habesha mechanicHe knows what he is doing and his price is reasonable.He named his girl a life saver. He thought about for a second, he wanted to take their friendship to the next level, but she told him that he is to flirty and she is the jealous type. Now he is comfortable with himself he thinks the girl who just visited him likes him and he loved her. He will give her his time and be patient then she will be his forever.Before he start working he called her number and the message told him it is out of the designated area."damn metro" he mumbled like everytime he lost signal or phone trouble. It's metro's fault.He was thinking his metro for t-mobile but they advertized long distance call anytime for additional $5.00 bucks. Nobody can beat that deal. He stayed for now until another appealing sale comes out. The week passed dragged and that mysterious girl couldn't be found.He tried his call and left her a message over ten times. Everytime he left the message he mentioned that he was worried.
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