Juba is truly a business centre in all ways. For example: These days you cross paths with a beautiful lady and ask for her number, and then text her when you get back home and exchange hellos on the first day. The following day, you see a notification reading 6 text messages from her. And you are there wondering what it is someone this new to you has sent in 6 separate texts. 

You are wondering if you should be excited and thinking maybe love at first sight is truly existent, or maybe she's breaking the norm to ask you out first… but then you realise we are not culturally there yet. Or asking yourself if those other Juba stories are true but again you realise that as broke as you are, it would be a waste of smoke. 

6 minutes later, you stop debating with yourself and open the message and the first message is a ‘hi’, followed by a company profile, followed by samples, followed by ‘support your sister’, spiced with ‘at very affordable prices’, and then concluded with the ‘sorry for sending you these many messages’.

Somebody needs to tell some of us how we can make these businesswomen understand that sometimes we would like to just fall in love.