Good day to you all here in the hive learners community. And my people on the hive platform. Every day is surely another beautiful day to celebrate 🎊. Living through each day is a blessing we can never know how much it is worth. And season greetings to you all.
It’s like festive periods are always great times for everyone. No matter the religion you believe in. There is always a special spirit that rolls around when it comes to festivities. Just as the Muslims celebrate Eid, and share happiness across the globe. The same way it is when the Christian season comes around. The merriment and fun that goes all around.
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This would take me to the prompt word of the week 41 edition 3 on the hive learners community which is BEST CHRISTMAS MEMORY.
I remembered last year while I was still in my service year. It was a little boring over there because most of us residing there had to travel back home to celebrate with our families. Everywhere got boring to the extent that I remained indoors till the day of the new year. Few of us around are those that aren’t celebrating.
I had plans back then too but I couldn't get anything to accomplish. It was still okay to some extent because a different show came up.
Some of the permanent residents in the area got their heads together and prepared something to distribute to everyone around. They made rice and chicken though not that much 😆. And also shared some soft drinks in addition. At least we got something.
Yet we all have those memorable moments that already came into our lives and we can’t forget about them again. They became glued into our memories and became one of the nostalgic moments of our lives.
My Best Christmas Memories
The sales of plastic glasses, fancy rubber watches, a lot of toys and Christmas decorations, there are caps with Christmas lights on them, sometimes there are some with lights on their clothes and shoes. Balloons are never an exception. I can’t say how much we wasted on buying balloons then 😂.
The worst part is that after buying it then it would just burst into the thin air then your money is gone 😂. Everything always looks merry. But still having all these without having to buy one thing, your Christmas celebration is yet to be completed. What’s that thing??
BANGERS! 💥 💥 💥
My parents won’t allow us to buy bangers and they would always feel pity for parents whose children are always playing with them. They never knew deep down that we are always imagining ourselves firing those bangers in real-time.
All thanks to our grandma. We would always complain to her about what we felt at the moment and how much we are craving those bangers. She would promise us that whenever our parents are not around she would surely get us some. We are always happy to be with her.
She kept to her promises and got us “2 sounds” then. The bangers are costly depending on the number of sounds in them. So the 2 sounds are a little cheaper but at least we got the experience we wanted. After that, she gave us two each. No one was able to fire it. We were scared it might blow up our hands. My elder brother summoned the courage and did his own, he fired the banger and we all danced around him. I did mine next and then my younger sister did hers too.
Wow! 🤩. We loved it then and we felt like buying more. But where is the money to buy them? So we are just left to reminisce about the day we had one. It was total fun.
One faithful day I was sent on an errand with my elder brother. While we were on our way back home we were always in search of those banger remnants especially the one with a rope. So while we were almost home, fortunately, we saw this banger with a rope, it had seven sounds, and taking a good look at it with the length of the powder and rope in it, one would know that there should be sounds left in it.
We took it home and then kept it somewhere till our parents were out. Grandma wasn’t with us then. My brother took the banger and buried it inside the soil leaving the rope outside. We got a matches stick, lit it up, and then placed it on the rope. We were expecting a blast 💥 out of the soil but nothing happened. After that we went back to look at it, something must have happened. While we were about to scatter up the soil my brother lit the rope again for the second time, and the banger exploded!!! The sand scattered over our bodies, only God helped my eyes from not going blind that very day. 😂. After the bitter experience, we all laughed it out and promised not to try such again... 😆
The memory remains fresh in my head as it became one of the best memories I experienced during Christmas 😂 😂 😂. Now I don’t even think those bangers existed anymore…
