A PIECE OF MY MIND

Let me tell you a story. This story is about when I was at the university, I interned at a radio station owned by my school. Now in my school, there is this rule that the internship lasts for 6 months, three months when you are at the two hundred level, three months when you are at the three hundred level. On this particular day, I walked into the radio station (that day was not my IT day, but class was cancelled, so I decided to go there). I heard a man talking from the speaker that was outside at the reception and I feel in love with the voice, only for me to get to the studio and found out he was a man old enough to be my father, he was in the university (the one I attended) the year I was given birth, the crush I had for him died immediately like ASAP but I still did not let that deter me, I had eyes on the goal and went to meet the assistant head of programs and she took me to him and I explained myself that I would like to sit it the studio and observe him. The next day he called me to sit on the mic with him.

It was a new session and my space has expired, I looked at the situation of things at hand and realized I couldn't afford to pay for a space, so I went to meet the same assistant head of programs and she offered me a space in the staff area and that was the beginning of my problems. When anything comes up that puts me in a tight corner, "When you came to me, you wanted a place to lay your head, did I ask you to be my girlfriend, did I ask you to the other room?" I get replies like this a whole lot. The rules and regulations that came with me staying there were too much, but I had my roommate to help me sail through all I was going through because we worked together at the radio station. Then she graduated and ......

My school organized a "back-to-school" program for students and the radio station hosted that program. There's the guy who has been asking me out, and I told him I already have a boyfriend, and I wouldn't double date (if I didn't have a boyfriend, I still wouldn't date him because he was too short, a little bit above my waist). That was when the greatest turbulence started, and he frustrated all my efforts to make matters worse because he was a co-anchor on the show I run, because we rotate it and anchor on different days. On the day of this program, I was sent to call him. I called him the first time, but he didn't reply, although there was music blaring from speakers. I went back the second time and tapped him, and he just shoved my hands out, and I let him be. Later, after the show, he went to answer the MD who was calling him, and when he came back to me, I didn't even smile a bit because he was already annoying me.

From that day onward, it became a case of why would he be talking to me, and I'm frowning. At some point, he threatened to break my head with a bottle right there in the office. So one day I went to work and he asked me to leave the studio but I refused simply because I had a show to run on that day at that time. This guy dragged me outside and rained blows on me. "How dare you, a common intern, challenge me when I'm talking?" I reported him to the higher-ups, and they said the same thing. That was when I knew enough is enough. I basically threw caution to the wind; you can't be doing all these to me simply because you gave me an accommodation to stay in for the time being. I got angry and poured out my mind, I was ready to leave that house that same day if they asked me to leave, even though I had nowhere to go, I was in severe pain, and nothing was done about it. All they said was I should take painkillers and lie low.

I called each and every one of them and gave them a piece of my mind, and blocked them all. To this day, their lines and social media handles are blocked on my device. Luckily for me the radio station was removed from their hands and placed under the supervision of my HOD and that was how I retained my space, When my house caught fire and got burnt they made me go through a lot because I needed my MD's signature but I was grateful I gave them a piece of my mind, just a piece, what would have happened if I poured out my whole mind 🤷🤷
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