This group of young men is trying to make us feel like we did not enjoy in our youthful days. They also insinuate that we old guards were cowards during the days we were youths.
“How come some of you could move around for a week with a love proposal letter in your pocket, failing to just give it to the intended girl? If that is not cowardice, what is it then?” one of them says.
“Afana, simudazione [young men, you have not faced a real tough time during love proposal]. Those were different days, when women were ladies and not these days when young ladies can fall in love with you before you actually propose to them,” I say, as members of the crew nod their heads in agreement.
But with that I ignite more scorn from the young men.
“Muzingovomera kuti mudali owuma [just accept that you were weak in the area of proposing girls]. You should also accept the fact that we, modern day youth, are real tough and we have what people call ‘sweet talk’,” says another of the young men.
They mock us more by saying the whole lot of the ages of their fathers were not a good model for any intelligent young people.
“What of this talk we hear that most of you could escort a girl for over 15 kilometres, walking, and not be able to hit the nail on the head? In that, I mean, propose love! The whole aim of the escorting is to propose love, yet you could walk or that distance and fail just to say ‘babie I love you’?”
We the old guards, crew members and others available do not want to be out done by these ‘kids’.
“By the way,” says Lackson, “Do you take it as an intelligent thing to meet a girl for the first time today and end up sleeping together just after some rounds of booze? Ndim’mene mukuthera [this is why you young guys are dying at a fast and alarming rate].
“And, these young boys of modern days are a very dirty lot. Imagine, three of them can sleep with one lady one after another and take pride of that!” adds ‘Atsogoleri’ Rob M.
We from the crew clap hands in appreciation to the point.
“It is all very crazy of them to do that…actually these young boys don’t know how to propose. What they do is just getting the girls drunk and take them where they can sleep together, most of the times also unprotected!” I chip in.
But the youngsters are adamant, they maintain that even when they do it as a group, it is a sign of brevity and intelligence.
“Actually it is you old guards who in your youthful days, you used to exchange women, even wife. I hear you used to call it ‘chidyerano’.
Was that also not dirty and even primitive?” one of them tells us.
Seeing we could not reach a consensus, we from the crew just decided to change the venue of our drinking.
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