THE DAY I ALMOST GOT THE BEATING OF MY LIFE

It's really amazing how people look alike. Sometimes you get to see someone that looks like someone else you know and you just get amazed at how people from different parents, place and without any connections can look so much like alike.
A friend of mine once told me that humans are created in pairs, although I totally disagree as I find it ridiculous and baseless, I was once shocked to see a carbon copy of one of my friends years back, I nearly even nearly got into a fight because I couldn't tell the both of them apart.

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It was years back, I had this friend named Jimi. He was my closest pal and we were always found together. I knew almost everything about Jimi. we were even closer than siblings. We shared almost everything with each other. we shared our clothes, money and even our food together.

Jimi sometimes spent the weekend in my place and I did same in his place too. We would go to the pool together and attended parties together too.
I got so close to him that I literally knew everything about him. I knew how he smelled, the way he walks , the way his voice sounds, the shape of his head and even how his hands felt. Even if I was asleep and he touched me, I could easily recognize that he was the one.

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Me and Jimi were great friends, we were so goofy, we even had our funny ways of greeting and saluting each other. One of the ways we saluted each other was by slapping each other lightly at the back of the head especially when one of us wasn't aware of the other's presence. We adopted the slap greeting after we watched a movie called "MR BONES". It was how people from one of the tribes in the movie greeted.

The slap greeting just was our thing and we didn't try it with anyone else. Even though the slap wasn't a hard or painful one, we were always alert and always tried to avoid being slapped by each other and we never took offense whenever anyone fell prey. we would just say "I got you" and we would laugh it out.

Jimi always did the skin cut hairstyle, we called it Shanka in my place. He would shave off all the hair on his head without leaving a strand. He would make sure the skin of his hair was totally bare, then he would apply hair oil on his head to make it shine.
His head always glistened under the sun or any bright light and it made him quite easy to be spotted out in a crowd.

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I was always forgetful and I received a lot of back head taps (slaps) from Jimi. I hardly ever had a chance to tap his shiny bald head. He was really conscious and alert. I never caught him unawares.

After receiving several head taps and wooing from Jimi, I was determined to do mine.

There was this day we both went for a carnival. It was the NATIONAL YOUTHS DAY celebration and every youth was given a uniform. Popular musicians across the continents were invited to perform and the whole place was filled with people.
It was so crowded that it was even difficult to enter the Arena.

Whilst myself and Jimi struggled to enter the Arena, we lost each other. I had to phone him and enquired from him where he was, then I went in search of him. It wasn't easy getting to Jimi in such bustling crowd but I finally found him. I spotted his black glittering bald head and I made my way to that direction. He was watching a musician perform and I noticed that his guard was down. I was really happy that I was finally going to spank his shiny head and I moved fast before I would lost the opportunity.

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As I got to him. I slapped his head lightly and said to him grinning " I finally got you". I was shocked as it turned out that it wasn't Jimi but a look-alike. It was really amazing because he looked so much like Jimi. I immediately began to apologise and I told him that I thought it was a friend of mine. He felt a bit embarrassed but he remained speechless. He just ignored me and walked away.

I also felt bad and annoyed too. I called Jimi with my phone again and told him I was at the place he told me and I couldn't find him. I then asked him where he was. He said he had just stepped out few seconds before I came. He said he wanted to get the food that we would both eat when I arrived. I was so angry that he stepped out without informing me, so I traced him to the food Mart.

I spotted his shiny head again in the queue, I went straight to him and slapped his smooth oily head and said angrily "Jimi, why did you have to move without telling me first, do you know what you've made me go through?". As he turned, I realized that it wasn't Jimi again but the guy I had a encounter with earlier. I was now so terrified. "what have I done again ?", I said in my heart. This time the guy spoke. " Are you crazy ?, I am not Jimi" he said. I pleaded with him again. I told him I was sorry and it was a mistake. He sighed and left without even buying the food he wanted to. I could sense that he was so angry.

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I felt so embarrassed. The guy had created a scene and people had began to look at me like I was really crazy. I was so angry with Jimi, he was the reason I was going through all this troubles and embarrassments. This time I planned to give him a hot slap for all he had made me go through today.

I took my phone and called him once again, he told me he had gone in search of me and he was at the previous location where I was before I called him. I told him not to move an inch, that I was coming there immediately. I dropped the call abruptly and went back there. I was really furious. I finally saw him. He was just in front of me. I saw two packs of popcorns and two bottles of drinks besides him, it was my favorite drink Coca-Cola and my favorite type of popcorns- caramel. I sighed in relief knowing that I had finally found him.

As I got close to him, without saying a word, I angriy gave him a resounding slap on the back of his black bald head. " taiii !!!", it sounded like a firework. "This is what you get for causing me pain, idiot" I said as I bent to pick up one of the packs of popcorns and a bottle of drink he had bought.

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It was awkward that he didn't speak a word, as I raised my head, I realized that it wasn't him again. It was the same I guy I had slapped twice. This time I couldn't even utter a word, I knew he wasn't going to take it anymore. Before he could say anything, I had knelt down before him and tried to plead with him again. I could see the frustration and rage in his eyes. " I will deal with you today" he said as he took off his wristwatch and folded the sleeves of his shirt. Just as he raised his hands to hit me, Jimi appeared from thin air and held his hands. That was how my life was saved.