ITK aka I Too Know.

Freezing white Monday morning and yeah I HATE SNOW, we have personal beef but i shall talk about that some other time.

I'm a proud Nigerian but some Nigerians have a disease called ITK, its overwhelming how someone can argue with you for over thirty minutes about something/somewhere and they refuse to admit that they are wrong and even try to make you sound stupid for trying to enlighten them about the issue at hand.

Don't get me wrong i believe in standing my ground when i am trying to pass a message or make a point but being adamant when your wrong is just plain STUPID.
I was having a conversation with some guy yesterday that i thought he had sense but clearly he didn't, and i found myself getting upset because it made no sense to me why someone in university would argue blindly about something he wasn't sure about.

Basically the argument started when i told the guy that i'm from Omoku in Rivers State and he started telling me he knows where Omoku is and it is close to hes school(Uniport) and its neighboring community is Aluu. Now that does not make sense because Omoku is nowhere near uniport or aluu although you pass uniport on the way there but its like an hour plus away from these places and i tried to explain to Mr man but he tells me that i do not know where i am from and i should ask my mum and dad. That statement got me pissed and speechless for about thirty seconds.

I thought i was talking to a male human with common sense but it turned out that i wasn't so i tried to explain to him again how Omoku and Bayelsa are kinda on the same route till u turn right into Ahoada which leads you to Omoku but guess what Mr university said no way that i am wrong and he was gonna prove it to me that from Omoku junction he takes a bike to where he stays and its about ten mins away and they charge him 100 naira.

At this point i was weak but i was determined to school this confused male human, so i gave him a brief history about my Omoku and told him that it was obvious that in the Aluu community where he stays there's a place with the same name as my village but they are two different places and he should do a better research because if our conversation was an exam he would have failed like a fool and i ended the convo because i saw no reason to continue talking with someone that couldn't just admit the mix up and get proper information.

If we can accept being wrong when we are wrong mhen it would help us a lot, yeah we might look stupid but arguing would only make your stupidity grow into something else.