One night, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when I met a post from one of the groups I’m in. The post said, “Mention what you currently need, maybe a good Samaritan is willing to help you.” Usually, I will ignore such posts but that night I was a little bored so I decided to go through the comments and laugh at what’s funny just to spice the night up. And then I met a comment from a girl. She said, “I’ve been home for two years without a job. I learned digital marketing online and just when I was about to make money out of it, my phone got spoilt. If someone will buy me a new phone, I would be very grateful. Nothing fancy. Techno or Infinix would do.”
I tapped on her image and went through her profile. I saw she had made a post about the same issue on her timeline and the only thing her friends could offer was sympathy. I saw other posts on her timeline that showed she was really serious about what she was saying. It was around 11pm when I went into her inbox and sent her a message. “Good evening. Sorry, I’m contacting you this late but I read your comment in the group that you wanted a phone. If you’re serious about it, I can help.”
She came to read the message but didn’t respond. I said to myself, “Maybe she doesn’t need my help.” I shut my phone up and slept. The next morning, I woke up to see a message in my inbox. It was her. She said, “I saw your message last night but I couldn’t read it all because part of the message was at where the screen wasn’t working. I had to log in with someone’s phone to respond to this. Please, how would you help me?”
My brother in the US occasionally sends phones to Ghana and I sell them. I had a couple of those phones with me so I told her, “I have the phone with me. If you could give me your contact and the location, I can meet you and deliver it.” She said, “Can’t you send it through delivery?” I said, “Why not? If only you’re comfortable with it.” She said, “Yeah, I want it that way so you don’t have to go through the hustle of bringing it yourself.”
That day around 4pm, I sent the phone through a delivery guy to be delivered to her. The next morning, the delivery guy returned the phone. He said, “I got to her location and called her phone a million times but it didn’t go through.” I tried calling. It didn’t go through. I sent her a message on Facebook, she didn’t respond. One week later, I still didn’t hear from her so I sold the phones. The very day that the last phone was sold, I had a call from this girl. I asked, “What happened?” She said, “My phone eventually gave up on me right after talking to you.” I asked, “So you have a new phone now?” She said, “Yeah, it’s a ‘yam.’ I’m still waiting for the one you promised, that’s if you haven’t changed your mind.”
I told her I’ve sold the phones but I was expecting new ones in the coming weeks. She told me she would wait. I told her it wouldn’t take long for the phones to arrive.
One week later she called to ask about it. I said, “They are not in yet.” The following week too, she called. The next week too, she called. To stop her from calling me, I started calling her every day to give her an update. One day she said, “We’ve been talking every day but I don’t even know how you look all because of a bad phone.” I said, “If you don’t mind, we can meet one of these days.” She said, “Not at all. I can meet you.”
One day we met. She was as beautiful as the photos I saw of her on Facebook. She told me her story of how a lot of people have tried to take advantage of her because of her situation. “I’ve had big men come to me to offer me jobs. I would be happy and hyper about it until I get to know what they demand before they give me the job. But the thing is, I’m not a lazy girl. I can always make things happen for me if I get the tools.”
That day, I gave her the last money on me. I told her, “Don’t buy a phone with this money. The phones are already here. You should get it by the close of the week.” You do things for people and they show you some form of appreciation but the kind of appreciation this girl showed was beyond me. She called the next day to say thank you. Anytime we spoke, she’ll remind me of that kindness and say thank you. At some point, I had to tell her to stop thanking me.
When the phones came, I called to tell her. I asked, “Should I send through delivery?” She said, “If you can, bring it. If you’re too busy to bring it too, just tell me, I will come for it myself.” Hours later, she came around to take the phone. I warned her, “Don’t say anything about it on Facebook. In fact, this never happened so don’t talk about it.”
We kept the friendship going until two weeks ago I proposed to her. She said, “You think you can handle all these troubles?” I said, “I don’t think you’re a lot of trouble than I’d already seen.” She said, “Just let me think about it for some days and see. I hope you’re ok with it?” I said, “No problem at all but don’t keep me waiting.”
Two days later, she called to say yes.
I couldn’t contain the happiness. All of a sudden, I’m at peace and everything seems so right. It’s new love, I know but something about her makes me think she’s the right one for me. She’s forceful. Always looking for new ways to create something out of nothing. I love her dreams and the fact that she knows she can only rely on her own self to make things happen.
I want this to work and I want her to be my last stop so wish me luck.
–Ansah
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