Goriola’s Love Story … Series four(With ‘Funmilayo) I soon became impatient.And Someone knew too.It was the end of the semester and it was promising to be a long break since ASUU was threatening another strike.A few days after I was accosted for ‘anti-toasting’ offences, I saw the object of my affections in class. I walked past, and pretended not to see her. She didn’t even notice.I walked up to her-
Hi, was followed by asking her if I could sit with her and maybe chat for 15 minutes.
15 minutes?I thought she was going to say something about being busy and rescheduling until later but she said-
‘How about thirteen?â€
It was good enough for me.“Well, I just have a few questions and as soon as I get answers, I’m goneâ€. I gave her my ‘I-am-also-serious and busy’ look.
“Let’s hear itâ€.
She wasn’t impressed.Â
“ I’ve being hearing my gist around. I like you. I told you that. It’s okay if you don’t feel the same way but please let me know rather than my having to find out through people I don’t even know.â€
It wasn’t a question. She simply ‘answered’-
“I’m sorryâ€
I left her seat but hung out outside until she was ready to leave. I walked her to her room that night. I asked her for her home address, so I’ll come see her during the break.Femi smiled her Smile, and murmured- “shebi you are a guy, you have a way of finding these things out, find a wayâ€Eh eh! See me see trouble o, this girl has turned me to 007- I was thinking. I liked it. Â
But like the best-laid plans- when I got home, I didn’t get around to it and the ‘distractions’ didn’t help any. For two months, aided by pre-GSM no-phone, I slept on my oars until I heard ASUU was calling off the strike soon. I became worried that we were ever going to hit it off again after the long break.I didn’t need to worry. Someone wanted us to work. Â
((((You left out the story about the the Olu guy who misyearned in her house and how she lambasted him afterwards))))Â
I started to ‘work’ again. I sent her cards, I saw her often; I continued to let her know I wanted us to be together, managing to keep away from the pest-zone. I met her brother and the rest of the family at her grandma’s burial ceremony and they took to me. It looked good but she was still not totally gelling. She later told me she was not ready for a relationship because her primary aim in school was to get a degree (as if the rest of us came to jump on our heads).
But we talked more, we talked about everything, soon enough we became friends. We agreed on many issues but disagreed on some. For instance she was celibate but I was not finished with my ‘experience’.Â
We met in February 1996 and on the 1st day of December 1996, we finally stated dating. A month after she finally said yes, we were coming from one of her friend’s birthday and in a public bus, and she placed her head on my shoulders, smiled the Smile…. Then I knew I had my babe.
P.S:Really, I don’t think I actually deserve Femi, but she said she prayed and fasted before settling for the relationship. I can only think that if God said I was good enough for her, then in His infinite wisdom, He must have seen something good in me-something worthy. While we dated, she stuck to the no-sex issue. I thought she’ll yield with time but after one year of ‘active persuasion’, I realised I was in for a long wait.
Seven years later, December 2003, in front of God and Man, the Smile looked into my eyes and said ‘I do’.
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November 1, 2007 at 8:02 am (UTC 1)
Oh my God,am soooooooooooo loving this.Waoh,Waoh,Waoh.now dis lookd like a movie,it ended well?i tot stuff like dis only happened in the movies not in real life.am soo touched about the really romantic story.dats nice,really really nice.wat am i goin to do without this story now?
November 1, 2007 at 8:19 am (UTC 1)
@olajuwon,
Are you sure you really liked the story or was praying that the femi babe no gel so u can cue in. The story is nice, reaeeeaaaaally nice, but seven years in a relationship????!!! na wa o! do such things still happen? We want more love stories o…..maybe i can get around to my love story with ‘ololufe’ someday, by the way……where is my sweety?
November 1, 2007 at 9:21 am (UTC 1)
@funmilayo,i jus read d whole story again and noticed an inconsistency,wat would a “lag big boy be doin in a public bus??dem no fit take taxi??no wa oh.
@dela…..(i say shorten am),i think it could happen cos they started from school,as dis ur own eye dey shine,e no go fit happen to you again but for love dat started from school,it can soo hapoen very wel,d babe go do at least 4 year course,go nysc,work for a year or 2 then go on from there type thing.i reaally liked d part of d babe prayin and seeing he was for her but wat am very very curious about wat hapened in d 7years?was d guy celibate as well??did he ever cheat on her,we only heard the sweet side,d ups and down way go dey in btw nko?abi how else do u tink stories turn out having part2.
where is ur sweety?HA HA HA ,i LAUGH d Ibo way.u might wanna check right here………under d quilt with moi.u know say rain dey fall
November 1, 2007 at 3:27 pm (UTC 1)
@olajuwon,
my God, how i wish the punch throw fit reach u, ah….u go sleep for 2 wks, Allah! Meanwhile, unilag no dey enter bus? haba, na student now, motor dey get fault, he fit no get the money to fix am…..and from what i get from the femi chick, she probably wanted it that way(no efizy) and thats wat i think happened
Many stories do have loopholes and leave alot to ur imagination, this is not nursery rhyme so u cant get the full gist…..this is a blog, we go discuss am
November 2, 2007 at 6:55 pm (UTC 1)
u guys don start again with dis laff by force campaign but really i was thinkin in d same lines as olajuwon! it’s an obvious and valid question. what was mr experience doin all dat 7 yrs. it’d tell alot about the r/s. anyway that was a rhetoric question sha! later guys!!!!
November 5, 2007 at 10:17 am (UTC 1)
@mimi,
Why do pple like you have to side with my perceived opponents anytime i am involved in an argument on this blog? Anyway, I want to know the answer too, how did our dear Groriola cope with a lady who chose to be celibate for seven of their courtship while he obviously has not given us any reason ro bliv he can hold himself that long. That and so many other questions desire answers, can Funmilayo come out of hiding and lets know what went down. By the way, why is our dear Goriola keeping quiet? i thot Funmilayo says he’d be reading too….
November 6, 2007 at 10:29 pm (UTC 1)
nice one! thoroughly enjoyable. so whose story is comin next now? i’m eagerly lookin fwd to d gist o so dont dissappoint. lol
November 6, 2007 at 10:32 pm (UTC 1)
perceived opponent or not u see finally we are all on d same side-we want to know what md bobo was doin all d while but i wont pursue the issue further because it’s a case of ‘ur guess is as good as mine’. mnwhile d best part of it is the ‘and they lived happily ever after’ wow! what wont i do for a happily ever afterstory esp if it is real life!
November 7, 2007 at 8:56 am (UTC 1)
the part of the sotry i like is dat they actually dated for 7 yrs!!! meeen, dats a change, all he stories i hear about long courtship usually end in sorry tales of seperation. though i know that things like love don’t have a textbook to follow, it is very refreshing to hear good stories with happy endings and lest i forget…..that ‘ur guess is as goo as mine’ bit, i dont like to assume and would love to rather know the specifics from the horse’s mouth.
where’s my chick now….
ahn ahn ahn, i’m drowning inna ocean,
somebody try to take me awaaaaay,
why u leave me?
November 7, 2007 at 10:07 am (UTC 1)
after all said and done,please can funmi and goriola come out to answer their first names?
@mimi,i dey do private placement of d 2nd story before it gets listed on the floor of the market…..u wan get on board??
@delagasky,u gats to beg me gaaan to know wat i and funmi av been up to as u know no where she dey…talk to me!!!!lol
November 7, 2007 at 1:08 pm (UTC 1)
@olajuwon,
if i didnt know better, i would have been scared and be begging u, but……
November 8, 2007 at 5:13 pm (UTC 1)
@Olajuwon and Mimi..
ummm,
y’all know what they say about lawyer-client confidentiality, journalist-protection of the source etc..
well btwn you and I, Goriola did confess to some forbidden trysts but i thoug it would spoil the ‘love story’ theme.. and he said he was sorry etc
November 8, 2007 at 5:21 pm (UTC 1)
@Olajuwon
and the upublic bus.. haba.. fuel strike, ‘brokenness’, long trip etc
plenty reasons for ‘omo boy’ whose babe has just ‘greed’ will take a bus.
November 8, 2007 at 5:24 pm (UTC 1)
@funmilayo,
so upon all the songs i have been singing since……i dont even deserve any….i don suffer, i hope u have not decided to be like Femi….all my songs no tap u decided to sleep. God dey sha.
November 8, 2007 at 5:27 pm (UTC 1)
@olajuwon,
your second issue..
what can i say-’broke-ness’ no money, fuel strike, inter-capmpus routes, long trips etc..
plenty reasons for omo-boy to see how the pther half lives, i guess
November 9, 2007 at 8:05 am (UTC 1)
@delagasky,
you know i got all love for you.. you know
November 9, 2007 at 9:28 am (UTC 1)
@funmilayo,
Thank God u sent me the message o, i was praying that guy no go come here to laff @ me again. Wellcome back…i hope
November 11, 2007 at 2:49 pm (UTC 1)
@delagsky,
glad to be back too.
How bodi?
November 12, 2007 at 11:52 am (UTC 1)
@funmilayo,
Body dey inside cloth, thank God. Glad to know you are back and i wont stress that so some pple dont chop lux. I still dont think you did justice to the questions asked by faithful readers ( you must have responded in a hurry) kindly read back and do the needful, haba! we deserve better response o jare.
p.s how ur body too?
November 18, 2007 at 3:25 pm (UTC 1)
I have taken so much time to read through all your comments from the beginning of the story to the end….they are all facinating, you can imagine reading people’s response to the story of your life. The story you have all read has shaped my life so much, more than you guys can imagine. I’d start from the beginning….
1. Even my very good friend, Gbenga was sceptical….”you cant get her, she’s born again and you are not”. 11 years later, i am married to her and she has actually helped me work on my relationship with God, i am not where i should be yet…but i am working on it.
2. 2 months after the relationship got going, another friend that noticed us together asked “can you marry her, you are both of the same level in school, you eye no dey stay one place, etc etc……”, i smiled and answered confidently, “if she doesn’t dumpt me, i wont dump her”
3. All through the seven years of dating, she was the only person i could ever bring myself to be angry at (nobody else in the world was worth the trouble) but the longest we ever quarelled was 1 week and i believe that was because we were in pre-GSM times.
4. @delagasky, i dey feel you, you seem to carry my views all the times and i think we mayhave plenty in common. On the Funmilayo issue…..you go try gaaaaan o, yeah i have seen her and i dare say she is really ‘luscious’ and worth all the drooling
5 @Olajuwon, I enjoy ur match with my guy but we all know who is winning
6 @mimi, boom sha sha ( my son would dance to you anyday, just mention ur name)
7 @funmilayo, hmmmmmmn, what can i say…..it started like a joke and you helped bring it to this level. Thank you
Answers to your questions:
On the bus thing…..she wanted us to ride in a bus, she wanted no ‘efizy’, and perhaps she had seen too many girls in my car for her want to miss out on the name ‘next one’
Was i faithful? Even the best told stories are not told to the finite details…..your guess is as good as mine.
I appreciate you all for your time and responses and even those that just read through, i still thank you. Most of all, i thank God, who in his infinite mercies has ‘dashed a nonsense guy’ like myself a rare gem and eleven years after i met her, we are still waxing strong, blessed with a very handsome son, and a promise of more to come.
January 2, 2008 at 1:21 pm (UTC 1)
@Goriola
I envy u o…n wish u quickly agree with her to complete your spiritual regeneration. Thank God I got something good also: just freshly deflowered LOL – but I wasn’t anyway near your level of ‘randiness’
But I will still wish she’s my wife if I had the choice of picking 100 times