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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>In the 1950s, most Asmarinos and, to a lesser extent, city dwellers outside Asmara spent their Sunday afternoons inside packed movie houses, watching John Wayne hunting down bad guys or maybe Errol Flynn assaulting pirate ships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch out! He is sneaking up on you\u2026.Sock it to him\u2026.. Attaboy John Wayne\u2026.\u201d shouts the crowd.<\/p>\n

It felt like a real Turkish bath inside the movie houses and if you happen to be in Cinema Croce Rossa, it was a rare enactment of Finnish Sauna.<\/p>\n

But I can say with certainty that a feeling of joy obtained from watching cowboy and pirate films had a cooling and salubrious effect on the audience.<\/p>\n

What about those who couldn\u2019t collect enough money during the weekdays to be able to buy themselves a seat in the movie houses? They had been running errands with their big brothers and obtain paltry donations in vain. Now, they have nothing to do except hang around movie houses or stroll along the Liberation Avenue feasting their eyes on items displayed on shop windows or, as a last resort, set off to the wood in search of adventure.<\/p>\n

What kind of adventure? I would ask my Grandpa. Watching amore a L\u2019Italiana, i.e. playing the peeping tom while Italian inamorati kissed and hugged under the bushes.<\/p>\n

We were too young to have sweethearts in those days and even if we had, it was more or less a platonic love and then our semi-traditional upbringing did not permit us to unleash our passions in public.<\/p>\n

Enter Kebron, the lone wolf who prefers to stay indoors, brooding and making his mother feel miserable on Sundays. It is 1 P.M. in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you go out and play like the rest of the neighborhood kids?\u201d says his mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my friends have gone to the game arcade and you want me to go out and play football on a hot Sunday afternoon?\u201d retorts Kebron. Well, to some extent he is right.<\/p>\n

The gloomy mood dissipates as aunt Tikea arrives for a visit. It is 2 p.m. in the afternoon and you wonder how this lady in her late seventies managed to walk all the way from the other side of Asmara carrying five loaves of himbasha (leavened and decorated local bread) and some dates.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeeesssss!\u201d shouts Kebron unable to contain himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are you, dear Tikea? You never come empty-handed, do you? You shouldn\u2019t have done that. It was not necessary\u2026. Kebron, would you please put the loaves in the cupboard\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYessiree!\u201d shouts Kebron.<\/p>\n

Kebron darts out of his blues. His spirit is refreshed and the smell of himbasha and dates imparts in him a new lease on life. But he has other plans too. His mother is now ready to exploit the situation by sending him on errands after errands.<\/p>\n

\u201cKebron dear, would you be kind enough and go buy me some coffee beans and sugar\u2026.and would you please\u2026\u2026\u201d she hands him 100 Nakfa to go shopping. He goes to the shop on the corner and buys the required items and keeps the change. As the chat between his mother and Addey Tikea passes from first-degree gossip to third-degree backbiting, Kebron sneaks out of the house and disappears.<\/p>\n

\u201cKebron, would you please\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Kebron is long gone. He is in the Game arcade playing FIFA 22 with his friends who had given him up for dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did it!\u201d he whispers to Senay, his best friend, inside the game store.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure you stole the money from your mother,\u201d says Senay.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will only know about it in the evening\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvening or morning, you will sure be belted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would go through hell just to play this game.\u201d<\/p>\n

And sure enough, Kebron was severely punished by his father and mother that night, who lashed his skin by turns. He expected it and bore the pain like a Spartan warrior.<\/p>\n

What do people think about on Sunday afternoons? Frankly speaking, women have no problems putting Sundays to proper use. They know where to go and whom to visit, what to carry and what to say. There are always relatives and acquaintances here and there who have just lost a member of the family, who are having their son or daughter baptized, who has an ailing mother in the house, a pregnant woman who has just given birth to a child, another one who is celebrating a child\u2019s birthday\u2026.and sometimes they just invent excuses to be able to see each other and more often than not, they visit each other just for the hell of it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I look out my window on Sunday afternoons and watch people go by, women in their Sunday best, full of life, chatting, giggling, shouting\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the sun has fallen down\u2026or is it shining along with other suns\u2026tee hee\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asmara city buses are packed with womenfolk. Their loud talks and giggles bother a man who looks like he has given up on life altogether.<\/p>\n

Most men don\u2019t know how to create excuses. If we exclude those who go to bars to play billiards and those who start booze before the socially accepted time, we have those that curse the day, put on their hats and head toward the parks that we have in Asmara, sit there and contemplate. They remember the time they made people tremble with a single shout of command. They look at their surroundings and utter:<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are no longer the same since we retired.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you go to the movies?\u201d asks an acquaintance.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou call these movies? They don\u2019t make films like they used to do back in the 1940\u2019s anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young girls are very creative. As long as they feel attractive, they go out even in the mid-day sun, for adventure. For Senait it is a blind date with an unknown lover. She is simply drifting.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello, Yodita!\u201d ventures a Romeo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI beg your pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, I mean Astier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sorry but you are talking to the wrong person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat difference does it make\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Senait came to know Filmon one Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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