Tosin has been engrossed with two things ever since he boarded this two hours journey bus, first he has been too careful beside the woman who sat beside him with a spirited playful son; because he was chronically afraid that the boy will dirty his white coat; and the woman too has become apprehensive with his itchy watchful attitudes.
Secondly, he has been praying that the torrential rain that started few minutes after he boarded this bus would stop, because if he disembark from this bus in this rain his spotless white coal will turned to another color on the Nigerian road that is often muddy when rain falls.
Fortunately for him the rain stopped five minutes before he got to his bus stop and he got down with his suit spotlessly clean! In fact he was a sight to behold for all the people at this bus stop, because they were all muddy and wondering how he could get to this commercial nerve center of this city without any dirt on him in this extral ordinary rain splattering morning.
Tosin stood far away from the vehicles that lined the road bumper to bumper, he was watching for a time that there will be space for him to run across the road.
Some few minutes after he has been watching, a space was created because an old car suddenly got knocked off in the hand of a driver. He stepped down from the pave walk to cross the road through the space created.
However, he did not notice a Lamborghini that dangerously overtook all other car that cued behind the spoilt car, the owner of this car drove recklessly through the parking lane and zoomed passed nearly knocking Tosin down.
Tosin, managed to jump off it's path as it zoomed past him, since the car was running through the side lane that was water locked, it splashed the muddy water all over Tosin's trousers!
Tosin felt like crumbling on the road because he knew this has ruined the golden chance that he has laboured for the past three month for.
He he opened his mouth to curse the driver of this Lamborghini, but no word came our. Just then he saw that the reckless car could not go through, it got stuck behind another reckless driver who tried to drive through the parking lane.
When Tosin saw this, he ran without thinking towards the Lamborghini to vent his red hot anger on the driver. But as he got close to the car the driver puts the car on reverse, bumped on him and nearly knocked him down for the second time in few minutes.
Tosin jumped out of it's way the second time, he meandered his way to it's side and tried to force the car door open. At that moment he had opportunity to look into the car and saw that it was driven by a young girl that looked twenty or twenty one years old.
He was shocked that a girl so young like this was the one who recklessly ruined what he has been labouring for. He clearly saw her face and it was imprinted into his memory instantly. The girl also saw him and saw his rage, seeing that he was violently trying to open her door, she pressed the locked button, made a face to Tosin and swerved out the car that really did not come to complete stop back into an opening in the lane; and just like that she zoomed off.
Tosin watched as she disappeared, he felt like crying or returning home, but something in him told him to at least get to where he was heading to and see what will happen.
He encouraged himself and headed to the place. Soon he was standing before Sir Boripe's General headquarters, the building that housed the holdings of Sir Boripe.
When he got to the office he used the folder in his hand to cover the upper part of his trousers that got the most dirtied.
He was here for final interview of a job he has been pursuing for the past three months. When this interview started they were more than five hundreds brilliant young men that started it, one by one they dropped them through difficult tests till they remained just two, and today Sir Boripe himself will pick one of them.
The reason he was the one to pick one among them was because the managers who had conducted the serial interviews had become emotionally tied to these two because they were extral ordinarily brilliant. They were always tied all through this interviews, but at the tail end Tosin had slight edge above the other guy.
The manager felt they will look wicked if they pick one and asked the other to go, and this was why they pushed the picking to Sir Boripe himself; they told him how they find it difficult to pick one of them.
On hearing this, Sir Boripe said he liked this kind of headache, and he sent a message to the two of them that they must come today in glistering white suit, and he told them to prepare their shock absorber ready, because one of them will definitely go home unhappy.
However, he further told them that he will give whoever among the two that is dropped five hundred thousand Naira as a compensation for the three months rigours he went through in the course of the gruesome interviews
Meanwhile, the person that will be fortunate to be the one picked will immediately be sent to British school of advanced strategic business planning and management.
when he returned from this trip, he will become the personal aide to Sir Boripe himself, and he will be entitled to so many enticing things, while his salary in a month will be eight hundred thousand Naira.
This was what was at stake as Tosin entered the office.
When the managers saw his dress they pitied him greatly, since they have already told their boss that he had an edge above the other guy; he was penciled to appear before the boss first.
He entered into his presence with his heart in his throat using the folder in his hand to cover his trousers, in spite of this the man still saw the stains.
He looked not shocked about the stains, but he smiled and got up from his table and walked up to him and said I know that white coat in this raining season will separate the boy among you from the man, I purposely asked you people to wear it and I prayed earnestly that rain will fall today.
God answered my prayers and now I can see that you are the boy among the two, the other man who arrived here unsoliled despite the road full of muddy water is the man. Tosin wanted to open his mouth to say something, but the man did not let him.
Instead, he sent for the other guy, when he stepped inside, he looked like he just got off his room. Sir Boripe looked at him and said congratulation you won! The guy bowed and said thank you sir.
Sir Boripe said for the sake of another time, can you tell your friend how you managed to get here unstained?
The guy said, "Well, the first thing that helped me was the realisation that dawned upon me that you are going to pick the neatest among us. Then I decided to come in another dress, I changed into this when I got to this place, I begged the receptionist to let me change my dress in the toilet and he allowed me"
Sir Boripe looked at Tosin and said, "Do you hear that? That is what I called wisdom and discretion, and the job we want to employ you for needs a lot of that, you must not only be brilliant you must know how to envisage things and act precisely without error of judgement.
So, this is our man, you however will drop your address with my secretary, so that we can call for you in future when we have an opening. And when you get there she will give you what I have prepared as a compensation for you, good day please don't let this weigh you down because it's not the end of the world, rather let it make you better so that in your days of golden opportunities in the future yoywill not experience this kind of disaster again.