BY YJ
 
The weekend’s humor
 
The story goes:
 
The family man Muntaigha has stolen a goat from the farmer Afang lang. Muntaigha took this goat to a nearby tributary to skin and cleanse the intestines. In his absence, Afang Lang acting on a tip-off has visited the compound of Muntaigha and upon arrival at the compound met Muntaigha’s son, Momodou.
 
 Afang Lang asked, “Where is your father?”
Momodou replied, “He went to cleanse intestines at the tributary.”
 
Thereof, Afang Lang hurriedly rushed to the nearby tributary to recover the goat and his thief. As soon as he arrived, upon seeing him, Muntaigha dropped the intestines inside the tributary and acted as though taking a bath. 
 
Afang Lang asked, “Mungaigha, where is my goat?”
Muntaigha replied, “Which goat?”
Afang Lang explained, “I met your son at home and he told me you are cleansing intestines at the tributary. Secondary my goat is stolen.”
Muntaigha argued, “My son never told you that. We can go home and ask him.”
 
So they left for home and as soon as they arrived;
 
Muntaigha called on to his son, “Momodou-Change-the-talk, what did you tell Muntaigha?”
Brilliant Momodou then managed to sense his father and changed the talk, saying “Muntaigha, what I said to you is my father went to take bath at the ‘Intestine tributary.’ Was I not clear enough to you?”
 
At that point, the game was over. The young Momodou has saved his father from embarrassment of a guilty plea. As a matter of fact, Momodou’s middle name was never “Change-the-talk.” It was just a direction that the clever gave to his son. 
 
Moral lesson: Just another story to share on this day. It is a direct translation from our African traditional story-telling. It is said that “laughters” and “smiles” will make you look younger. If this is to go by, then humor becomes a necessity in life, regardless of how ‘serious’ our lives can be. Besides, it is also important to teach good morals to your children so that they are with you. My writing of the story emanated from an editorial of the Point newspaper (http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/5/9/parents-and-their-responsibilities  ) where fathers and children are taking one another to court. Personally, I think that is just too much. Agreeable that even the teeth and the tongue do clash at times, even though they are neck-on-neck. The parent-child relation should be “for better for worst.”
 
To you all, what do you think is a perfect relation between parents and their children? You can weigh in from any angle; tradition, religion, et cetera...
 
 
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