Everything happened like a movie. I was really young but I remember it as if it happened yesterday. In this part of the world, the very common thing to experience is your Liquefied Petroleum Gas finishing when you are in the middle of cooking. Some people have backups but I know that majority don’t. We were part of the majority that day. As soon as my mom put the oil on the stove, the fire went off. I wasn’t a kitchen girl so I was somewhere in the living room watching TV.
My brother was the kitchen type not because he wanted to help but just to get the largest meat at the end of the day. The only option was for my mom to use a Coal pot. Even though I had been called severally to come help but I really made up my mind not to go near the kitchen.
So you see how no matter how empty a gas cylinder is, there’s always a little gas in it? My mom had sent the cylinder out from the kitchen and of course, my brother followed her.
Both of them were outside trying to make fire in coal pot with the cylinder about just 2 meters from them.
After struggling with the coal pot for so long, my mom went to the compound to look for something to aid her in making the fire in the coal pot. I came out to see what exactly was happening because my mom and my brother were having a really interesting conversation about “only they know what” and laughing so much. I was feeling left out.
Just when I opened the door and walked towards the cylinder, I saw my mom jump like a lion and push me away. Fortunately or unfortunately, my brother was behind me so as my mother pushed me, I also pushed him down.
It happened that my brother was playing with the lighter and lit it up facing the gas cylinder. If you ask me how my mom knew the cylinder was going to ignite a wild flame, I promise I have no idea.
The flame caught the window outside and we put it out with a fire extinguisher. Whenever I remember the distance between where I was and where my mom was and how she was able to save us, it feels like we were acting one action movie with her as Rambo or commando.It felt like my mom was a superhero, I mean she is but you know what I mean, the one in movies. I will forever be grateful for what happened that day and that memory will live rent free in my mind forever.
When my mom was a child, she was hospitalized for about 6 months due to severe burns so up till now, she always talks about how grateful she was that we weren’t hurt that day. Oh and from that day, I started running to my mom anytime she called for me. She didn’t even have to mention my name twice. Thank you for your time.
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mother's instinct can never be wrong, you don't need to know how she figured out the cylinder will catch fire, gas are highly inflammable, just a sparkle and the rest is history. We thank God your beautiful skin is still intact the anti kitchen lady
Why are you saying it for everyone to hear?😂😂😂
What if my future husband is around , please I’m not anti kitchen anymore😂
lol so he can know the lady he will be doing forever is the deal with 😂, you know the way to get a man is through his belly.
Let me run🤣🤣
What did I hear? not a kitchen type🤷
My mom's words, the way to a man's heart is through his belly. Those creature like food o🤣
Please o, I’m not trying to enter anyone’s heart o🤣
The person is looking at you right now🧐🧐
Let me run
Go and sleep 🤣🤣🤣
Wow wow.. Am here wowing. Don't even want to imagine it if the opposite was the story.. God forbid.
I guess since she had that experience, her body was easily alerted to move on it's own accord. Thank God for safety❤
Yeah I know right
thank God for safety
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My dear, here you will be a kitchen type by force, I remember how my mum will call and call, you won't even leave her sight when she starts cooking.
She would say; you want to clap your hands into the pot of food rather than adding the required ingredients.
It was not the gist nor the laughter that took you out, but God did actually for that purpose.
Haha, I get it
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What a lovely and pleasant post we got here. God bless your mum and you, love!
Amen and bless you too
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The vigor in African mother's voices when they get to call you more than twice can be very scary 😄 and yes, this whole scene feels like something gotten from an action movie but then again, a mother's instinct and reflexes when her children are involved can be very quick. Good thing she was able to save you from the pending disaster.
Yeah I know right
A mother’s instincts
Wow, that was one heck of an experience and like you, I’m grateful to God for helping your mom see the bigger picture. Mothers are really amazing people because the way they find solutions to problems is just so amazing.
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Hahaha...the same reasons why i help in the kitchen, to get the biggest meat of course.
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Haha
Mothers are the engine that drives us to continue. Beings of light that take care of our lives.
Yeah you’re right
Your mum is so sensitive to her environment and so protective, just like hen protects itch chicks from danger. A superhero mom indeed,, if her attention was divided, she may not have salvaged the situation but I am grateful to God for your life and that of ur family. May God continue to keep her
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Amen
Thank you sweet dreemer
My younger sister suffered severe burns as a kid and that was because my mom wasn’t around. She was so mad when she got back but things happen you know.
Thanks to your mom, you’re not gone too soon.😅
Oh sorry about your sister
Yeah I know right, always grateful to her
Mothers are literally superheroes
Mothers are always ahead of whatever is going to happen, their instincts are always 90 percent correct. I am glad she was a to save you both.
I hope you are a kitchen type now 😁
Haha, yes I am
Motherly instinct, that's how your mom was able to save the day. Every mother involved in her children's life has one and it's what keeps us safe and preserve our home. Kindly extended my love to your mommy all the way from the Big sister country 🇳🇬
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Alright big sister country, I will do that
Good girl 😘
OH my, thank God for those instincts and reflexes or things could have been far worse @abenad 😧
Yeah I know right
Forever grateful
Great lesson you learnt, indeed mothers are super heroines❤️
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