I happen to be one of those who can’t stand people who don’t mind their own business, I mean – I very honestly don’t like what I hate.
I’m someone who loves and cherishes his privacy so much and I don’t dabble into affairs that don’t concern me – You therefore, wonder what guts some people have to stick their noses in affairs that are of no concern to them.
‘How much so, when they’re even subordinates ?’
I readily remember hordes of former workers under my friend, Hamza while at the mortgage bank, particularly one of his drivers, who not only listens to our conversations while being chauffeured by him, but also makes unsavoury and unwelcome comments into them.
‘What effontery ?’
I don’t think my friend ever really minded, at least I never heard him complain, openly.
For me, talk about courtesies and drawing boundaries, no-one expects someone else to blare his opinions into discussions he’s not been invited to be a part of.
I think it’s absolutely rude to do so too and the funny thing is that you’re not even supposed to be listening to certain conversations in the first place, how much more – expressing an opinion.
Folks out there should learn how not to burn bridges, don’t cross the Rubicon – and that’s a personal principle of mine.
Recently, I had heard from the top of my house as one of my young neighbours, Tope was about to be driven to work, early in the morning.
It is a regular and common sight for him to be busy talking on the phone as he’s being chauffeured and as he was about to climb into his suv, his driver’s phone also rang – the quite gentle and obviously well cultured guy, quickly picked and quipped into the phone mouthpiece in Yoruba:
‘Je kii mpe e pada . . . ‘
(Let me call you back . . .)
Knowing quite well that his having to pick his own call would have also disrupted his bosses’ conversations – That for me, without being told, was respecting boundaries and knowing how not to cross a line.

The bottomline from that singular act, was that he sure cautioned himself, or maybe he learnt his lessons the hard way.
There can never be two captains on a ship – it’ll sink.
It’s as simple as a, b, c !
@ O’Shine Original . . .