Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Talebearing24- All that glitters is not gold!

       Once upon a time, there lived a guy called Fred as he was called by his friends, although his full name was Fredrick Kantoga. Fred was someone that liked to live an extravagant life right from his Secondary school days among his friends. He was known for his habitual attitudes. Going by the saying that says" twenty children can never play for twenty years while thirty adults can never play for thirty months", after secondary school, they all departed. Some got admission into the University, some into Polytechnic while some did not further their education because of their  financial incapability. But being the fact that Fred was from a rich and wealthy home, he had all his needs at his feet at any time they were needed so, he didn't know how to be preserved.
       Fred was in year two in the University when he lost his two parents in a very fatal plane crash that claimed one hundred and fifty-six lives. He was seriously disturbed academically and financially and managed to write the Second semester examination. After the burial rites of his late parents, the families of his both parents, being the only child, had meetings with him and promised to stand by him and care for his immediate and futuristic needs to further his education, he was very happy to hear all these promises. As promised, the families contributed a very huge amount of money and saved the money in his bank account with the money he had in his account before the demise of his parents.
        In a blink of an eye, Fred lavisly spent all this money with the hope that that was how the money would be forthcoming. He had never for once thought of how to manage whatever he had at hand. When he completely ran out of money, he started moving from one Uncle to the other and from one Aunt to the other,
all his efforts to get money from them proved abortive and he was helpless and hopeless. His late parents had three mansions and one big company but there was a clause on all these property that if Fred was not out of Tertiary institution, he must not be given anyhing not knowing that all these property had been used as collaterals in banks for the loans they obtained before their death.
          He was thinking seriously on how to get out of this " ugly mess". Suddenly, a thought came to his mind that he should put one of the mansions for sale. Fred started making efforts to achieve his aim. He went to the Estate agents in his vicinity to help him sell the building because he was seriously in need of money to remain in school. This information got to the notice of the bank where the loan was obtained through one of their staffers and they quickly stepped in through lawyers of both parties concerned to see that the three mansions used as collaterals were not sold until the agreement lapsed.
          Fred, initially did not believe this but when he saw his parents' lawyer and the documents signed by his daddy, he could not dispute it, that was then he knew that he needed to have a rethink on how to carry his cross because all his hopes on those property had been lost, so not all that glitters is gold. That was how Fred dropped out from school. 

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