Dorcas had queued on different lines for about seven days that the fuel scarcity had started and it isn’t looking like things would get better.
Queueing all day is going to make her leg ache get worse but Dorcas needed fuel. Dorcas is a pretty lady in her late twenties but is so lucky to be cherished by different men who buy her gifts and even the one who bought her a car.
While driving to the fuel station, she turned on her car radio. Coincidentally, what the radio presenters were talking about was the issue of fuel scarcity in the country.
“We have more fuel stations which got shut down because of fuel scarcity and today in Lagos Nigeria, here are lists of fuel stations that are currently selling fuel…” this is what is being said on tha radio station and Dorcas parked her car to know the fuel station close to her which will be selling fuel to people on that day.
She drove straight to Enyo fuel station at Command, Ipaja. On getting to the fuel station, there was a crowd. She parked her car opposite the fuel station and she opened the car boot then brought out a twenty five litres of keg and if she gets this, she won’t bother to buy fuel for the rest of the week.
She entered the fuel station and she was the last person on the line. Despite being the last on the queue, the place was still choky. It’s an open place but people still could not breathe.
“If I stay on this queue, I might spend the whole day here,” Dorcas thought on her mind and got out of the fuel station. She told the person ahead and behind of her that she’d be right back.
She went into her car, took two pieces of clothes and wrapped them together. She rolled them and put the clothes in her belly. Stood in front of her car so she can be sure that she was looking pregnant. Within five minutes, Dorcas became preganant and she went to the fuel station and acted like a real pregnant woman.
Help!!!! She screamed. Her voice was so loud that even people who worked in offices of the fuel station heard in their offices. Everyone looked to their back to see what was causing the noise. They all have watched different drama from different people and the lies they told so they would get fuel on time.
“Oh this woman is pregnant. Let’s help her in and let the attendants sell to her immediately. I guess she has been waiting outside for long,” a guy on the queue said.
Within ten seconds, over five hefty men moved towards her and tried to get her into the fuel station. That wasn’t all, everyone made sure that the fuel attendant sold to her even before the next person on the queue. Dorcas was such a lucky pregnant woman.
Normally, every fuel station has a rule of selling just five litres of fuel to everyone so it would go round but after seeing a tried and frustrated pregnant woman whom a lot of people pitied so much, they sold twenty five litres gallon of fuel to her.
A caring guy even went as far as helping her carry her gallon of fuel to the station gate.
After seeing that she had accomplished her aim, she raised her dress and shouted everyon. The people looked to the back again to see if the pregnant woman was okay but they saw that she only packed some clothes under her dress and they were surprised.
Some people shouted ole!!! which meant thief but Dorcas ran fast to her car when some guys were ready to catch up with her and teach her a lesson never to play pranks on people anymore but she was a fast runner too and smarter than those who were chasing her despite the fact that she was carrying a twenty five litres gallon of fuel. She started her car under ten seconds and drove off.
On getting home, Dorcas opened her car boot and tried to bring our her gallon of fuel but while dragging it, the gallon mistakenly slipped off her hand and fell on the floor. The fuel began to gush out from different areas which got broken.
Dorcas became sad that even after she escaped staying on the queue and got what she wanted, the gallon of fuel slipped of her hand because of the extremely long nails which she fixed.
