Grabbing a hot bowl of waakye early in the morning is a common practice among most Ghanaians at all levels and class.
Waakye has become one of the most cherished foods these days and many are those who will do all it takes just to get a bowl of waakye from the best vendor in town but unfortunately, it comes with a lot of hurdles.
Here are 11 struggles we all have to endure just to get a bowl of waakye.
1. Long queues
The best waakye in town can have a queue from Pokuase to Chorkor and you will still have people waiting for their turn. If you are hungry and also happens the last person in the queue, you might as well just fast for that day.
2. The arrogant waakye seller.
The best waakye seller can say whatever they like to you and you will still smile because all you need is your bowl of waakye. She can tell you her piece of mind and you can’t say jack! although “e dey pain, what you man fi do?” all you want is your sweet bowl of waakye.
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3. That person buying for his whole tribe.
There is nothing annoying than standing in a long queue and just two persons to your turn, one man decides to buy for a thousand people. Herh!! That thing dey pain papa.
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4. Prices
There is nothing more painful than finally getting to your turn and you tell the seller you’re buying waakye ¢3.00 and she looks at you with a scorn, “we don’t dish waakye ¢3.00 here oh! ¢5.00 and above” and all you have is ¢5.00. Now! That’s torture at a different level. How much is a bag of rice and cup of beans self?
5. The fights
Then there is the part where you have to fight all the time over who came first and who should be last and always the seller had to intervene before matters get outta hand.
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6. Holidays
You wake up one early morning and without knowing it’s a holiday, you decide to beat everybody to the queue, you get there 2 hours earlier only to realise it is a holiday so the waakye seller won’t make it. Now! that feels like a knife cutting through your heart.
7. When it finishes before your turn
There is nothing that can bring you close to tears than when you stand in the queue and it gets to your turn and the waakye is no more. You feel like strangling the seller.
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8. Protocol
There comes the guy who walks in and claims his boss sent him and because his boss is the one who pays for the waakye or gave the seller a loan to start the business, the seller apologises to everyone and decides to dish for him before getting back to the queue. The annoying part is that he practices point #3.
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9. Queue skippers
Then we have those who always want to cut through queues to get to the waakye first as if we are trees. They just want to fight k3k3.
10. When accompaniments finish before the waakye
There is nothing annoying than waiting in line till it’s your turn only for the wele, no macroni, no salad and no gari, then what exactly did I come to buy?
11. When it finishes before time
We all know by 10:00 a.m. the waakye will finish only to get there at 8:00 a.m. and you’re told it is ALREADY finished. You feel like burning the place down but you have no option than to endure it.
What are some of the things you have to endure at your favourite waakye joint? Leave your comments below let’s share the fun.
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