What is the way forward? [Photo: Shutterstock]
Few instances can make a woman feel like a gravedigger would make for better company than when her date launches on one of those long monotonous drawls about trekking 10 kilometres to school with hot water and salt for breakfast.
Squinting at the bill might also see such a man veering off to how his single mother sold scrap metal at Mlango Kubwa to see him through a
harambee school in rural Kinangop. Such men also rarely notice that their tales of how far they have come are not akin to the rags to riches stories, rather, it is a sign of walking around with excess baggage.