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Nobody can tell me that they have never been in a situation where they are broke or lower in cash than they normally are. Being broke is one of the most annoying situations that you can find yourself in. You keep going to the cash point hoping that your balance,by some miracle, is different from when you checked about five minutes ago. Some times the cash point might even add insult to injury and show account balance 200 and then available balance Nil. This usually happens when you have paid for something that's gone through but the company hasn't taken their money. Its so annoying, why can't they just take the money immediately?Bloody teases!

Anyway, being broke is the number one reason for people stooping low in life. One of the funniest things about some people is that when they are broke, that's when they appreciate their origins and cultures. This is when they start to crave groundnuts, garri, indomie,and the likes. Some people don't necessarily like these things but these are the closest available items to them. They'll say stuff like 'I just really want to soak garri right now'. Mostly a false statement, garri is cheap and available, Pizza hut is a bit out of  grasp at that moment. The worst is when you catch somebody 'soaking' garri twice in one day. There is no alibi for this one, your allowance has finished. You can't have that craving twice a day I don't think. People also do some dastard things in the name of preference. One guy once ordered a 'shot' of lemonade in the club, his excuse to  the bartender was that he doesn't want that much.yeah right. take the normal half pint of lemonade and waste the rest instead.

You also get people telling all sorts of lies. One of my mates once walked with a girl he fancied from the Union to the town centre in loughborough. Its about a 20minute trek and this particular night was cold. Luckily one of my friends has a ride, so I was driven home along with some mates. Anyway I accosted this boy and said to him ' Why you no use cab yesterday.are you skint?' He goes ' nah man, i just wanted fresh air'. The biggest lie of all ages. That same fresh air can be all up on you when you're in the cab and the windows are wound down. I don't think you get more fresh air just because you are walking a bastard long distance. Anyway to end the Convo, I told him he 'runs' this town. This person also decided to reduce the stoop boundaries by buying a veggie kebab the other day.I'll explain this. He came into mine and I saw him with one of these plastic containers that they put fast food in. When he opened it, I stared in disbelief. It was a Veggie Doner. It was literally lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes and cauliflower in pitta bread. He is not a vegetarian by the way. He just wanted to avoid the main part of the doner which is the meat. I think this doner was about fifty p. To even make it worse, he put chilli sauce on the vegetables.

Being broke is something that you can identify on a person when you first set eyes on them. You can notice someones big head, big nose and also the fact that the person must be broke. There are sometimes you can just tell that one is having it hard from their demeanour especially towards the end of the month. I went to A levels in a town where it doesn't matter if you're broke or not. You walk everywhere, food was given to us, the clubs were free and the drinks were mad cheap. Still some of us found it very possible to be broke.This was where I first noticed that you could identify a broke person. That's the worst kind of 'brokeness' is when you are not spending that much money and still broke. It was bad such that two of my friends found it difficult to get back to London for the half term festivities. One of them had to stay an extra day in school so that they would send him money to come back to London. Needless to say, He didn't set too much p that holiday.

Another bad situation to be broke is when you're in a relationship. Someone told me about this one couple, the boy was going through a rough patch and the girl was also in the same situation. These two used to alternate meals. So if the boy eats breakfast, then the girl will eat lunch and then feign a diet and both of them forfeit dinner.This is a massive stoop if it really occurred though. You should just take a break and then when the allowance drops, get back together. I wouldn't say that relationship is expensive but it definitely hard to have a relationship on a budget.

All in all, being broke is not the ideal situation for anyone but it will happen at some point. I think the key to life is to make being broke as rare an occurrence as possible.