16 and TRYING to live the life!

Alright, so it seems I do have avid fans out there. Avid fans who refuse to leave comments expressing their thoughts, opinions and adoration of me. Hint, y'all know yourselves! Need I say more! So with the niceties out of the way, the shocking news that has reached this 'reporter's' (O yes.... I more or less am one, afterall you get your news round up from me!) ears or shall I say eyes, seeing as it was on BBC news online is that two 'British' girls were nabbed in Ghana trying to take out drugs (well actually the drugs were plane-bound for the UK)... wait for it.... worth THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS! Yes you most certainly saw it... £300k.... what were they thinking! Meanwhile, these girls were only 16 (yup, sixteen) years old! My friend called them teenage call girls. Lol! Am sure all they were promised, was maybe what.... £1,000... ok, worse case scenario... 5k! But maybe a few designer bags between them and maybe 1 or 2 pairs of shoes thrown in... then what! Whatelse did they want to spend the money on! I blame their folks, afterall they should have warned them NOT to EVER take 'gifts' (in this case drugs) from strangers! Meanwhile, if this had happened in Thailand! Hmmm na to die straight.... a short road to hanging it'll be called. There'd be a film made about them too.

Anyway we don't know the full story yet, but I can tell you that am o so VERY glad they were not Nigerian! Trust me, if they were; British born or not (actually it also says they were from London) it would have been all over the news... I can see those headlines '2 Nigerian teenagers caught with 300,000 Pounds worth of cocaine'. Then the first line would have read 'Two Nigerian teenagers born in Britain were caught with an astonishing amount of cocaine. The drugs with a whooping street value of 300,000 pounds was discovered while they were trying to board a plane to the UK'.... you know the rest. Then it would have been ...hmmm that country filled with 419ers has gone back to its drug peddling days... and look, their unthinking, 'take advantage of innocent people' drug dealers now use 'innocent', 'unaware' young girls to get their stuff out! We would never have lived that down. Well we still don't know if the dealers are Naija.... This reporter will keep you posted.

So what do you think 2 sixteen year olds would spend say £5,000 (not that they would ever have got that if they had been successful) each on? Not a car for sure, they can only get a provisional driving licence in the UK and need a licence holder of at least 2 years beside them at all times.... what else, dresses, more Joe Browns, Kate Moss@Top Shop, Stella McCartney@ H&M, Zara etc than they could think of.. what else?? Me thinks nothing else..oo ooo me, me, teacher.... Ipods... but how many would they need? Let's see if they got the Nanos, they could get 1 in each colour - a different one for each day of the week :).. and more Itunes songs than their little hearts could play and accessories than they could co-ordinate with or use...:).

Well now that my old brain is exhausted... been a LONG time since I was 16, and besides, times REALLY are different!

Anyway the moral of this story is: 'BRING UP YOUR CHILDREN WELL. Teach them not to be greedy, not to keep up with the Joneses and most importantly to have CONFIDENCE in themselves!'