{"id":8037,"date":"2013-10-23T02:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2013-10-22T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:22:45","slug":"emmanuel-number-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/emmanuel-number-dont-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Has My Number, And I Don&#8217;t Know Who He Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogher_content\"><script src=\"http:\/\/ads.blogherads.com\/bh\/70\/709\/70956\/1144985\/campaigns\/13\/1375\/1375765\/x93.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not crazy about Whats App, and it&#8217;s for the singular reason that anyone who has my number can send me messages. I&#8217;m not much of a chat person (which is why Facebook chat is permanently off); I&#8217;m more available on e-mail. Chat means that I have to respond right now and possibly have an entire conversation, but I&#8217;m not always in the mood. And the truth is that sometimes, people you don&#8217;t know or care to chat with will send you messages.<\/p>\n<p>So there I was yesterday minding my business when a Nigerian number kept sending several messages saying, <em>&#8220;Hi.&#8221;<\/em> Rewind. Yesterday wasn&#8217;t the first day; it had been happening for the past few days, but I never responded. Then after several Hi messages, the person now called me by my Igbo name. Aaaahhhh!<\/p>\n<p>Only people who are close to me and people who knew me long time ago know my Igbo name. The name isn&#8217;t a secret, but it&#8217;s just not \u00a0too known, so when some random person on Whats App calls me by that name, I listen. So I responded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8038\" alt=\"Emmanuel 1 \" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-1-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8039\" alt=\"Emmanuel 2\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel.jpg 700w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Emmanuel.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a>My people, see me see motorcycle oh! [I don&#8217;t really know what this sentence means, but my mom always says it, so yeah]. How can you sell your phone and not delete the information in it? Now I&#8217;m wondering how many other people have my information. \u00a0And I like how he said, <em>&#8220;Buh u luk sharp,&#8221;<\/em> like that just makes everything better.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe Emmanuel though. I think there&#8217;s something he&#8217;s not telling me. \u00a0Maybe he stole the phone. Maybe he is the someone who knows me but doesn&#8217;t want to say. Maybe he&#8217;s in cahoots with the person who knows me. I don&#8217;t know. I just know that I was baffled yesterday. I mean, don&#8217;t you clear your phone clean before selling it? And when you do sell a phone, do you sell it with the number, too? You&#8217;d take your sim card out first, no?<\/p>\n<p>So Emmanuel, I don&#8217;t know which kin yeye game you&#8217;re playing oh, but I will not be a part of it (not anymore at least). After that bit of information, Emmanuel kept sending me more messages, which I ignored. \u00a0He wanted to know if I was Nigerian, if I was single, and if I lived America. All ignored. \u00a0He is now blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian people, please warn yourselves oh! *pulling right ear lobe* Which kind ting be dis one? Abi did they send this random whats app-er from the village?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not crazy about Whats App, and it&#8217;s for the singular reason that anyone who has my number can send me messages. I&#8217;m not much of a chat person (which is why Facebook chat is permanently off); I&#8217;m more available on e-mail. 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