Mboches! They are picked up from the streets mabe looking and asking for jobs like washing clothes part time or cooking part time, or if you are from the "haves" you hire them from the bureaus. However, if you have a poor relative in need of help, you hire one of his children to come and work for you.
Then comes a time when the employer decides that the mboch will be tasked heavily in the day so that they will have no time to backbite or front bite with the other mboches around the estate. One year goes, two years but just before that year is ended, it dawns on them that they must be looking so cool and so fresh, they actually must be so different.
The other male mboch from the neighbours house notices the countenance on the face of this gal and woiye the poor gal starts to delay in shops when sent. She also starts oing her hair so well, when given change at the shops she exaggerates the prices for goods so she can keep change in order to "changa" and maintain herself, probably beat the cute mboches in the estate.
Sooner or later, my masa calls her and she takes ages before she responds. Then slowly you notice her sleeping kila night with a torch and you wodner. Kumbe its for mulikaring the love letters she has been sambazwad to by the shamba boy who lives at mama ndindas. The shamba boy is so madly in love mpaka he asks her to meet him at the shops, or behind the house. Sometimes he would pretend to come to our house to borrow salt, a broom, toothe paste or even unga because maybe the previous day the slept hungry.
The lady mboch has huruma, all the shoping that my mum does, thinking they wil fika end month ishas too soon. Then we discover.. oh, its that shamba boy who prolongs his leg home for mercy and worsey.... My mum being so generous, we ignore all wat happens so we dont anger the mboch lest her wrath befalls us. She is so hard working you would never imagine her leaving our family to go work for someone else. since we know her value, we ignore all the ills she does so she can stay and cook for us, wash many many many clothes for us tirelessly, in essence we know we cant do without her. Compared to many other mboches who have worked for us, no one beats her. She is just so hardworking.. and wat do you expect from a lunye. Most lunye mboches are adoreable as long as food is never lacking in that house and more so,TEA AND MUCHABADI. make sure there is just enough.
To make my short story longer... al continue when need be.. but please you kyuk mboch, wacha kupromise mboch wetu that you own land all over kenya.
