''Borrow me this, borrow me that....''
They know everything going on in your home because their neck is always stretched into your activities.......
Do you have a neighbour like ?
One BV said ''Few weeks ago, a neighbour knocked on my door to ask for c#ndom at 11:45pm . He said all stores are closed and he wonders if I could lend him at least 2 . Each time I remember this I can't stop laughing''.
Lets gist!
During my unegraduate days, my bunkie asked me to borrow her one pink pant then. I thought she was joking o, till she kept on asking...
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Delete😂😂😂😂😂
Juju things. How can someone borrow pant 🤦🏽♀️
DeleteOur neighbour don't beg but like to leave their own apartment to my own to gist always, which I'm not always comfortable with.
ReplyDeleteBorrow borrow neighbors did me shege in school.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor's son sometimes borrow stuffs and never return them, coming to my room going to my closet and taking my clothes to wear to the point of taking money
This one isn't borrowing but begging. I had one neighbour back then in school, he can beg for anything, I mean anything. If you're chewing gum, he can ask you to give him the aleady chewed gum. It's that terrible. To the extent that people started hiding their things (anything related to food) from him. . You will be drinking garri or tea like this, he will snatch the spoon from you. Very annoying boy. If we attend a function together, and they give us food or any snack, he must eat from other people while he still has his own. I cut him off from my life cos of this useless attitude
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaat?😳😳
DeleteHis own is serious oh
DeletePlease no pretense
ReplyDeleteif you are the borrow borrow neighbor, yarn us o
You can start first
DeleteWe had a preggy neighbour who the hubby come knocks at my door for food at 9pm.I had to start adding her food to whatever I cook.She will buy zobo ingredients and tell me to prepare it specially for her and store in her freezer.When they gave birth they asked us to give their daughter a name.I enjoyed her cravings sha.
ReplyDeleteI would say we actually carried that pregnancy together. 😂😀😀
Nice😁
DeleteAwww!!! Very nice of you to have added her. Pregnancy does that to some people of not being able to eat their own food. I have a little cousin that didn’t eat her own cooked food throughout her pregnancy. She cannot even smell the cooking of food in her house without throwing up. What women goes through to have a child!!!
DeleteHow i wish i have you as my neighbour. God bless you jare.
DeleteThat was how my neighbour was gingering me to get pregnant immediately after wedding because she knew my plan of trying to wait at least 1 year before babies starts coming.
This elderly woman pushed me so tey, I gave in and got pregnant o.
The day I knew, I went to mama she started dancing o, okay na, I started the vomits and cravings for very hot as in peppered food. Mama oya now, all I heard was ndo o. 2 months, 3 months, I will tell her what I feel like eating g she will say ehn go make am na. I said mama I can't eat my own food she will carry face. Till 9 months that baby came. Nothing nothing from her side. Bath baby nko since I have no experience and no mother or mother-in-law to help, she said she doesn't have any experience too as it was her mother that bathed her son. She couldn't just help with one single thing, she can't hold baby for more than 5mins before she find one excuse to tell you to come carry him. If you see the way my husband was pampering her with cash and gifts prior to me having the baby believing she will help with her constant i won carry baby o my inlaw.
Na so I entered one chance o.. now she has started her song again because my baby is 3years old. I said mama, we are trying.
No be me you go finish again. Funny woman.
Our tenants added my elder sister's portion to their even meal list until she gave birth. She never gets satisfied.
DeleteFab mom and wife God bless you. You are a kind neighbour. 18:16 you are lucky to have good tenants.
DeleteGood afternoon.
ReplyDelete"Don't quit. Strive now and live the rest of your life as a champion"
My former house I had neighbors that come to beg for blender, gas cylinder cos I have 12kg, 3kg and 6kg so at every point in time I have gas to use . My neighbor will borrow my small gas and will never remember to return it back till he empty it.
ReplyDeleteThe other one will come for drinking water, they come to ask me to share my water with them cos I had 200 liters container that I use to store water should in case no water supply. Sometimes I will come home and noticed someone has fetched water from my container without telling me.
The one that annoyed me is one young guy in my compound that will not let me enjoy my room alone. Once my gen is turned on boom a knock at the door he is the one. Once I am cooking this guy will want to come and eat. I will be asking myself who told him I am cooking food.
One day it was raining heavily that I needed to make Indomie but I forgot to buy onions 🧅 so I tot of what to do but decided to swallow my pride and go beg my neighbor for onions 🧅 when I asked her for onions I was so surprised she said she doesn’t have onions too. She felt bad that this is over two years that we live in the same compound and I have never asked her for anything, first time I asked her she doesn’t have. I told her not to worry o will make the Indomie without onions.
When I was moving out my neighbors felt bad cos I love to mind my business and contribute when is necessary. I don’t have money but I try to buy what I need in the house to avoid begging neighbors for little little things.
This my new area is only once a Neibour has asked me to lend him my pressing iron. Thank God he moved out last month. I don’t like neighbors who love to borrow every time please try as much as possible to avoid begging or borrowing little things like maggi, salt, pepper, oil, onions.
Hmmmm, I never had such experience Sha. Not that I'm rich oh, but I'm not friendly with neighbors just greet and go my way
DeleteSome people begging is in their DNA. No shame, no self respecting.
DeleteIf give them opportunity they will beg from Monday to Sunday 24/7.
If you offer, they can never say no.
Always dancing around like flies wherever they think free things can be gotten, itinerant praise singers. Parasites. And their stinking level of entitlement. I have never knocked on a neighbours door to beg. God forbid. I abhor incessant begging it's so irritating. Have some self respect. Number of times I'll discover my salt has already finished while rice is cooking,I'll cool and eat it like that. Same with oil, onions, seasoning etc. I either cook it like that or wit to over bought it to continue. Gosh I can't stand that incessant nauseating begging.
They sound like my current neighbour, they've come to knock for gas, Maggi, salt, onion, sugar, charger, water, match stick, iron, blender, infact I've lost count.
DeleteFunny thing is I have NEVER climbed even the stairs to talk of knocking on their door for anything before.
I'm the mind your business in the neighbourhood kind of person.
You really tried
DeleteMy former neighbor beg's for everything to the extent of borrowing my combo 😲😲 I left the combo for her cos I don't share my personal body care..not that we are direct neighbors really,she lives in the next compound but cos my compound is more lively,she come there to unwind and enters my apartment to chill
ReplyDeleteThe first time she entered my apartment,she said she's pressed and wanted to ease herself,I simply told her ,madam go home,see your house over the fence now?? She refused,so i allow her to use the visitors toilet in the sitting room..when she came out,I heard a loud shout,Aunty wey you? I rushed out of the room thinking something bad had happened to her,only for her to ask me if I was selling bar soaps, bathing soaps, detergents, toothpaste and all?? I replied her NO!! That I buy in bulk and store it there,to be using small small..she begged for detergent and bar soap which I gave her,2 days she returned again saying she wants to borrow toothpaste and bar soap that when the husband returns she will buy and bring,I gave her but I knew within me I won't collect it back,she didn't even buy and return neither did she refer to it again
Abi na pot, mirror,iron,manual blender? Most times she will collect it and won't return it on time..I will have to call her to return it for me for urgent use..when she opens my fridge sometimes and see how it's stocked,she will be asking if I'm doing a party?? I had to seat her down one day and advice her that,it's better to buy plenty and keep,it saves you a whole lot than buying everyday,her reply was that she can't save to buy and keep cos her husband won't be giving her money daily again..Toh! The day I moved out of that house,she was literally crying like a baby 😂😂😂😂
Eweleke!!!!
DeleteWhy won't she cry😀😀
Reminds me of shameless borrowers in warri. Dem wan borrow kerosene,we say we no get extra. Dem go carry pot come cook for our house 😩
DeleteHer own sef na wa.😅😅😅
DeleteGood afternoon Paris 😍
Hahahahha
DeleteHer helper Don japa
That why she is crying
Hahahaha anon 15:11
DeleteAnon 15:11 I’m screaming 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Delete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteNa wa ooo Pari but you sound like a good neighbor, that is why your former neighbor was crying when you left. 15:11 some people get mind sha and lack shame. If I smell entitlement mentality on you best believe I will shut the door in your face after giving you several chances.
Delete@Savannah your list line cracked my ribs
DeleteHmnnn, this post....
ReplyDeleteI currently stay in a compound that has 4 flats. My neighbours who stay upstair are complete parasites/leaches, if not because I have used body language to keep them at arms length, dem for Don almost move to my house.
One of the 2 adult women who love there is one of them yoruba actresses who used to be in scenes some years back, she is obviously very broke now but will keep trying to save face as per past celeb than go out there to hustle.
The annoying part is how the children in the house (2 of them are over 18) were able to bamboozle my former household so they that one was packing food and all sorts from my house to give them without my knowledge. I found out from my current help when she came in newly in February and one of the girls upstairs in the guise of making hair for this my new help gave her gist of how they enjoyed my former help. Omo I was mad when my current help downloaded the gist to me.
Money wey I dey work hard to make and stock the house with food is what you dash out to people without my permission.
They will come knock on the door for all sorts, Maggi, salt, onion, match stick, to charge, even water for goodness sake!! House wey no be face me I slap you o, rent is not cheap at all here so you can imagine the way the neighbourhood is, yet these ones no dey look face.
Back then, some of our neighbors use to borrow ewedu soup
ReplyDeleteHian!!😱
DeleteSame here o.
DeleteOur neighbor's children will come and borrow soup, salt, Maggi, sugar, matches etc.
Back then they will send their children to come and borrow everything. Even soup. My Mom will always give. They hardly ever return (of course nobody will collect back anything edible). Neither were they grateful. But my Mom would still give. I am kind of like her now but I am trying to add sense join because people now are not smiling. Them fit chop you join if you gree.
DeleteMine was in school. My bunk mate kept borrowing pads with the promise to return it when she buys. My mind didn't let me use the one she returns. So whenever she returns it, I keep. When she ask for pad, I do give her the one she returned. The cycle continued till we had new hostels and bunkmates. That chic today no dey carry me play, puts me on her status every now and then with plenty caption.
ReplyDeleteShe has a good heart. Some people beg cos they can't afford at the time.
DeleteWow
DeleteNice of you
😁😁😁
DeleteSome beg even when they can afford it. They feel they are using sense. You will buy consumables, they will help you consume, while they keep their money to use for tangible things that will make you wonder why they cannot afford to buy the basics if they can afford to get 'big things' for themselves.
DeleteA neighbor turned friend will always borrow pad because i buy ahead of my period and at times in dozen.
ReplyDeleteThe day she came to borrow one of g string pant was the last time I spread my undies outside.I can't even share pant with my siblings...
People dey sha, borrow pant ke?😳
Delete😂😂😂
DeleteI have this isoko neighbor that will send his son to borrow anything and everything, but will see you the next day and carry face for you.
ReplyDeleteWas taking with a friend turns out her sister who is my friends neighbor do the same thing to his wife.
#Hotmum
Honestly I can't type, neighbors have dealt with us to extent of borrowing soup to eat with akpu or some slice of yam
ReplyDeleteI live in a state with good hospitality. I borrow and they borrow from me too. No big deal. I'm quite close to my landlord family so we don't see it as anything. We borrow things like, onion, matches, gas , bucket, blender etc. They can borrow from me today, while I borrow from them tomorrow, should I run out of anything. We return the ones returnable as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe one I found funny was with my former neighbor, although I miss her. She had a preterm labor and there was no bag to put her things, I offered her my box, she took it to the hospital. She had C's and baby weighed 1.4kg, he was incubated, and the whole stress was on everyone in the compound when she came back from the hospital. Story plenty, but the thing is for about 4 months, babe no return my box. Haaaa, I asked, she will tell me there's clothes inside but I kept asking until I got it back after 6months, I'm not angry you because we're close, we borrow gas, eggs, knife etc from one another. We have a good relationship in the compound I live so it's no big deal to us. If one person forgot to return, go and collect it yourself na
Chill pill
It's a bad habit. What will you do if you have new neighbors that are not comfortable with it? You know what you need to run your home, plan what and when to buy based on your budget.
DeleteIt’s a bad habit stop it ! Please stop it ! Is that how you want to train your kids ? Your kids gonna be the people other posters are talking about here in future when they go to Uni ! Because how are you comfortable borrowing someone else bucket?!
DeleteIt shows lack of planning and zero boundaries! Stop it oo so your kids don’t borrow pants and bra because they saw their mother do it and say it’s no big deal, it is !
This is a very bad habit. Please try to stop it instead of justifying
DeleteDisgustingly shameless habit. How will this one train his or her children to live according to their means?
DeleteYou guys should be calming down ooo, I'm not even use to it. I said we have a good relationship, does that mean I go about doing it. We could pass for family, their children eat with me and I eat there as well. I have another neighbor and I don't do such with my neighbor.
DeleteSo, if they come for blender I should say I don't have, or bucket, or matches when I buy pack. I never said it's a good habit but when you are very free with someone, you can do it once in a while. I've lived in houses I didn't even do such
A neighbor then was cooking stew and rice.
ReplyDeleteAfter cooking another neighbor came to knock on her door and told her”aunty is the stew ready because have finished boiling my rice”
The lady was surprised
She gave him out of the stew.
It was so funny. Like she was cooking stew another person was boiling rice with faith to eat from the stew.
Very funny
DeleteNo shame actually.
DeleteI've lived with my landlord and landlady for 7 years and I've never borrowed a grain of sand from them. I hate begging. I have this little pride sha🤷🤷
DeleteThis brought back memories, lol,i remember my days in school, students can borrow anything,from salt to maggi,to bringing their spoon when they see you eating,the list is endless.
ReplyDeleteI had a neighbor then,when he sees you cooking he begins chanting "i dey game,I dey game"
As a student, I had a male student neighbor that can borrow eh, before he will go to market, he will ask me what I have from pepper, oil, salt etc, naive me, I will tell him, he will use his money buy meat, dried fish and stock fish then even use my stove cook am after he will be bragging to me how he eats enough meat and fish as a big boy.
ReplyDeleteOne day, he asked me ,I told is like I have those things, when he left to the market, I emptied everything packed them in a bag and hid in my landlady house, even kerosene.
Guy man came back asked me, I feigned busy, I directed him to where I kept those things, he met those things either empty or crumbs.
He got angry, then he planned his revenge on me that he will set me up with a guy who will pretend to befriend me and bring my nudes to him, and since I get eye for good things, he has to convince a biracial looking guy to come and woo me.
Oh me, it's 18 years with the guy and 3 children, infact, the guy found out I am a wife material and didn't waste time.
Guy man later apologized, I let go, after all his revenge gave me husband wey nothing for connect us in the first place.
We were in PH with our children to say hello to the guy man, he lied he was not around.
I guess, guilty conscience still dey worry am.
I really like the way it ended for you
DeleteSorry but your hubby was trifling for even agreeing to that diabolical plan in the first place, to woo you and get your nudes for revenge. That he fell for you don’t change his trashiness.
DeleteSnarker, I might agree with you but guys agree to alot of things to prove they are superior to others guys.
DeleteAnd being handsome, they believe any girl can fall him.
He was a chain smoker, Indian hemp addict, perms and weaves hair with his magnetic ear rings.
But that revenged changed him for good.
He met a girl that is not carried away by handsome and swag but character.
And he changes for good. That he always say he never wanted the challenge but after much tease ,he accepted and grateful he did.
Gbam! @snarker I won't marry a person who agrees to such in the first place.
DeleteAll is well that ends well. Some peoples entitlement is on another level. Imagine the length he wanted to go for revenge because you refused him foodstuffs you normally gave him.
DeleteI'm even more scared of the person who wanted to get your nudes 18 YEARS AGO.
DeleteHow was he planning to do that? 18 years ago few students were using kpalasa phones that were just being introduced.
Wouldn't be caught dead with that kind of person, much less marry them.
I dont think we should judge him,people do silly things in their younger days,most of them change to become a more responsible adult
DeleteThat's why they are so easily poisoned
ReplyDeleteBegging as if na dem poverty first entrap. Whenever they see free food, mouth and open will fly open like a waste bin.
This is the comment I was looking for! How people eat anyhow and anywhere is beyond me.
DeleteCan’t relate but I’m here to read stories😁, don’t think I know what any of the people that live on my street look like
ReplyDeleteOh back in uni, I was in my friend’s room gisting with her when one of her roommate’s friends came to beg her for her thongs. Very vile shit.
Exactly what I am passing through, unless they didn't see it, they will begg till it finished, I don't even know how to borrow and I will start buying afresh. Neighbour wahala God will see me through.
ReplyDeleteI live in the UK and a month before I moved out of the flat I lived my oyinbo neighbour with 4 kids started knocking on my door to borrow from me.
ReplyDeleteWeek1- can I borrow eye lash glue, I gave it to her and told her to keep it.
Week2 - can I borrow what you use to keep your hair curly because I have curly hair naturally. I gave her what I use and told her to keep it.
Week3- can I please borrow an iPhone charger cable. I gave her a brand new cable and told her to keep it.
Week4- I moved out
Week5- I met an old neighbour on the road and told her my experience and if she has ever been asked to borrow from the said neighbour she said and I quote her ‘she asked me to borrow her my bra’
I’m still in shock
So it's safe to say for some people begging is a way of life.
DeleteOmg
Bra ke 😀 I guess they wore the same size.I borrow things too but not edibles or personal effect.Like borrowing gen to pump water when our gen is faulty.stove iron Incase of emergency ironing.
DeleteWahala 🤣😂😂
DeleteSome borrowing na follow come.
DeleteYou moved out in week 4. It would have gotten to that.
Deleteim surprised at this because whites in uk generally mind their business..hmm
DeleteApart from professional leeches or stingy miserly people,it’s not a crime to borrow if you’ve run out of something or you’re just broke. People who make it a habit are the problem
ReplyDeleteThey are the problem and reason for this post.
DeleteAll this borrow-borrow no go oooo. You people better be careful. The day they come and borrow SALT or SUGAR be careful. Na your destiny you won give them be dat.
ReplyDeleteSeriously?
DeleteMy pastor did child dedication in their church . A night before that he came to borrow our TV bcos he would uave guests from the church snd wants to keep them entertained. Sunday finish, Monday , Tuesday no show . Omo Had to send my bro to go collect our thing back abi which kind Wahala we enter so ? 😂
ReplyDeleteUp to borrowing TV. Na real wa!
DeleteNasty attitude,I was trained not to borrow. You can actually make do with what you have. I don't have much but God's grace is sufficient for me and my family, we always have everything we need to the glory of God.
ReplyDeleteI have had a neighbor that can borrow anything stew o,garri,water the list is endless. I got tired of her cunning smartness and I cut her off. She would knock taya,I won't answer her,she was now sending her children cos I had a soft spot for them but that sef didn't not work cos I was already tired of her ways.
Not that they are not ok financially she just wanted to be playing smart .
My current neighbours are so loving and peaceful,one is even a caterer anytime she get big contract,she gives everyone food.Nobody borrows except on few occasions.
Stella some people can even borrow you if given the chance but some are caused by poverty and lack.
ReplyDeleteMy late mum was a food seller, so she was generous to people, giving out food to the hungry. People will come and beg her for food, soups, eba, rice, even meat.
We had a neighbour with 4 kids. Her husband left her and ran away with a mistress. After cooking, my mum would dish out food inside a small cooler for her and her children every morning Monday to Saturday. When we close in the night, the remaining food and soups, my mum will pack and give them to eat. One night, she came to my mum and told her to increase the food henceforth so that it will reach her man friend. Madam had gotten herself a lover and wanted mum to feed him too 🤣🤣. My mum was dumbfounded.
Poor me entered higher institution and continued sharing food and other things. They almost made me drop out of school as I was lending them money too including my school fees that were never returned.
Kai, students can borrow o. One would see beautiful bra and panties that I bought and washed , she would tell me to borrow her to wear to her boyfriend's place🤣. I would just leave them for her.
It hurts me when my family goes hungry sometimes because I am not used to begging from random people, we would drink water and garri and sleep. The only people I beg from without feeling ashamed are my relatives and a very close friend.
I miss my childhood and my late mum, Iya Alamala. Things were not this tough in Nigeria. We always had food to eat and share. Now I only share clothes, shoes, of me and my kids that are still ok. If a neighbour begs for anything and I have, I will give them.
Pls times are hard. No matter how absurd it may seem. Let’s show some kindness to the next person.
ReplyDeleteThank you for saying this.
DeleteJust give, give and keep giving. God sees and rewards. His reward is all I need. If the person likes let him/her think they are 'guying' or hustling me, na my reward from God be the Koko.
It is still that same Bible that tells you to give with sense.
DeleteWhat did I say?
GIVE WITH SENSE.
Go and verify.
Arrrghh stella i just remember my crazy idoma neighbor. God of heaven!!
ReplyDeletehuncle can beg for africa. if not for the fact that i am a lady uncle will borrow my pant.
Wetin that man never borrow, He has borrowed everything borrowable. He has borrowed my generator, blender, microwave, pot, plates, gas cylinder,iron, perfume, dstv remote, bathing soup, vegetabl oil,a bottle of wine,chicken stew, biko how do you borrow stew?
My car nko? even toilet paper uncle don borrow from me. Omo the day i moved out, i gave testimony.
Some people are perpetual beggers.
😂 Was he the reason you moved? Some people are shameless. It is not as if they are needy. What a wack way of life. Poverty doesn't mean lack of dignity and many who behave like this are not even poor. They see absolutely nothing wrong with their poor behaviour.
DeleteThey have describe my neighbour o.some one that they will share burns in church after eating his own he will go about begging others. His life style is a long chronicle. At times I do thunk he needs deliverance.
ReplyDeleteSome comments thou, I don laff tire. How do you borrow cooked food? If it's uncooked it's understandably, But cooked food? Nah, never heard of that.
ReplyDeleteI must say I've been very fortunate, I've never had begi begi neighbours in my years of living as a tenant, but where we built our house and moved to, my neighbor's kids have come to knock like 7times or more in 3 months to tell me they are hungry, out of the 7 times, I gave them only 5times, I lied the other times that there was no food in my house either, and they should go and tell their parents. I had to do that and will continue doing that so they won't have the morale to come and.meet me again. I dislike such character, even their mum kept tasking/begging any day I went for building supervision. She taught her kids begi begi.
ReplyDeleteEwe!!!! My sister lives in a compound where they come to borrow even fuel, gas, iron, charger, food etc and never know how to return. About 8 flats of married people oood, the thing dey painmpain sister die, they are planning to move out of there shaa
ReplyDeleteMy dear, its those married people that know how to beg pass. They will mock you that you are single behind your back and yet carry their poverty stricken marriagehood and come abegging times without number.
DeleteIf possible they will beg for the particular air you breathe. Once you give them, ahhh you don open floodgate, den don see mugu wey dem wan drain. Irritating lot.
I had a neighbour back then when she sees u bringing in foodstuff she will come and perch in ur room. The day I visited her I asked to ease myself only to see that she was hiding a pot of hot beans in the toilet😂😂. She hid it when she heard someone knock
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteEveryone in my compound dey form big boy/girl. Mostly na oil company guys. It is 4 duplexes in 1. Most of them you rarely see. Me sef na only 2 months in a year I dey use my place. I am gracious that no begging is involved.
ReplyDeleteBut back in my uni days. One guy too carry women but go come beg toothpaste or tomatoes in the morning
When I was living with my Landlord he asked that I borrow him some money but I didn't bother asking him how much because I don't want to start what..........
ReplyDeleteIn another place I have a neighbor before she packed out that came to borrow gas
Another neighbor that replaced her came to borrow hammer, iron not once oooooh, phone charger, groundnut oil to add to her lipstick, bucket for water etc .
One has come to borrow mopping sticks
Another has come to borrow garlic & another Maggi.
Meanwhile I have never borrowed anything because I hate borrowing.
Note one can run out of something & ask from a close neighbor but it has to be once in a while stuff that's why we have neighbors