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The double doors to Levi Theodore’s hardware shop were fully open. Sisal strings fastened them to window grills because the wind kept flinging them shut.
Were it not for the store he had on the opposite side, the hardware shop could not have held all the things he stocked. Every shelf was full of well-arranged items for sale.
The display was eye-catching to customers. The hardware shop could cater for the needs of the people of Mukuri town. It was the best-known and most preferred hardware shop.
Due to the fact that the town was expanding, the demand for building materials was high. At the moment a lorry that had brought more stock was waiting for offload. The driver was hooting. Perhaps he was getting impatient.
There were two vehicles belonging to customers who had come to collect whatever they needed for their construction. Others had come with handcarts, donkeys, bicycles, and wheelbarrows. Not far from the hardware shop were vehicles for hire for anybody who would buy heavy building materials.
Levi was Inside Serving Customers
Levi Theodore was inside serving his esteemed customers. He was dashing about every minute.
“I want five kilos of building nails. Mix three and four inches.” A customer was saying.
Another was asking, “Do you have round bars, twisted bars and a hacksaw?”
“What is the cost of one iron sheet?” another customer asked. Then a little later, “I mean gauge thirty.”
Levi spoke politely, “Well my customers let me serve you one by one. It will only be easier that way.”
He was moving hither and thither; getting a commodity for a customer, wrapping it nicely then proceeding to the next customer on the line.
A fat man who had a sagging potbelly said, “You will need a helper, man. Otherwise, you will die of exhaustion.”
“You are right,” Levi agreed. “I’ve already pinned a notice there.”
“Oh!” The man said. “I had not seen it”
Soon it was Nightfall
When dusk fell at last and Levi was forced to close the hardware shop, he was a very tired man. He had placed the advertisement two days before yet no one had come. He wondered what was wrong since there were many unemployed people in the town.
As he opened the door to his house, he realized that he had to face the kitchen; the place he detested. He hated hotel food and on the other hand, detested cooking. All the same, he was feeling peckish.
He dropped his coat and rolled his shirtsleeves as he boldly entered the kitchen. It made him look like he could strangle a lion. He put about two cups of water in a sufuria and put it on the gas cooker. Hardly had the water boiled when he added maize floor and started making Ugali. Earlier he had bought a kilo of meat and he began to prepare it.
One thing that amazed Levi was that he was always in a good mood eating but not cooking or washing the dirty dishes.
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