It's a masterclass of nature; how what is quite a regular exercise can just bring a twist. You never know what a little laugh can do for your soul. If anyone had told me I would have had such a good laugh that day, I would have disputed it till the end of time because I was quite having it rough.
I am a student at the University of Benin, Edo state, Nigeria, West Africa. My course of study is Aquaculture and Fisheries Management. In our fourth year, we usually do more practical work. Like every other day, we went to the university's experimental farm.
When culturing fish in concrete tanks, you have to do routine maintenance which includes washing the tanks. So, we were to wash a tank that morning. A downside to washing concrete tanks is that they can be very slippery due to algae growth.
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As we washed, I told a friend of mine to be careful as others were just slipping and falling into the algae soup. My goodness, it was funny. He said, "Nothing will make me slip or fall". We were done with the whole washing, the algae soup had been flushed out, and we were just rinsing and then it happened.
In a flash of an eye, I saw my friend on the floor, and within the same flash, he was up and standing straight. I laughed and laughed and laughed, I almost died. What was quite funny was the speed at which he quickly stood up as if we wouldn't know it just happened.
We laughed about it do the rest of the day of course, and even now when we talk about it, it is still very funny. Moments like that, become memories of a lifetime. You never know how much they mean, until you can't make such memories anymore.