Husband’s new car sends wife into flight

Updated Monday, April 22nd 2013 a 14:47 GMT +3

BY CHARLES NG’ENO

A senior lecturer from Narok County who wanted to pleasantly surprise his wife by driving home in his new car sent her into panic instead.

 Instead of excitement, she got frightened of the strange car parked outside their house and fled, thinking it was a harbinger of bad news.

The man after, buying a new Nissan X-Trail, decided that he was going to drive home without alerting his wife who teaches at a primary school in his village.

For months, she had been nagging him to buy a new car, something commensurate to his high status. The man, for many years, had been driving an old Toyota Starlet, which the family reasoned was beneath the man of letters.

Phone

That morning, in his hurry to drive home, the lecturer, who teaches at Egerton University, forgot to pick his phone, which had been charging from a socket in the bedroom.

As was the norm, his wife tried calling him but his phone rang on and on without an answer. After several attempts, she concluded that something must have gone terribly wrong because it was unusual for him not to pick calls or call back.

It was at Kericho that the lecturer realised that he had forgotten his phone and decided it didn’t make sense to drive all the way back for it.

By 4pm, he had parked his new vehicle at home and was waiting for his sweet wife. He reasoned that that would add to the surprise as he rarely arrived home that early.

Minutes later, she strolled home but was shocked to see a strange car parked near the gate. Fearing the worst, she ran away in fear, her knees weak, not wishing to hear the ‘bad news’ that the owner of the vehicle had brought.When she met a few neighbours who were whiling time away 50 metres from her house, she thought they had gathered to break the sad news to her.

“Mat omwowon olenchon mokomi boyot (don’t tell me my husband is no more)! I have tried calling him but he is not picking my calls. What happened? Someone tell me!” she screamed.

It took some time for them to make head or tail of what she was talking about. Their explanations that nothing was amiss, however, fell upon deaf ears and she insisted that they must accompany her home.

To her relief, and everyone’s amusement, her husband sat sipping from a mug of tea that the house help had served, very much alive and well!