THERE are many cases reported by neighbors or friends to better halves of cheating couples.
Many times, quarrels and fights occur in homes because neighbours or friends have reported either the wives or husbands who may have been dishonest to their better halves as they go out flirting with other people other than their wives or husbands.
Usually, the people who report such cases are those who are so close to their neighbours and they tell them not to reveal the source of their information.
When they are found out, they wonder how their husbands or their wives knew about their affairs when they were dead sure these private love affairs were top secrete which would never be found out.
However, the people who report the misbehaviours of their neighbors or friends think they do this in good faith, but little do they know that they cause a lot of kerfuffles in the homes they report these cases to.
Some of the kerfuffles have more often than not caused big fights which have resulted in injuries, deaths or divorces.
Let me be frank with you. I was also at one time a victim when I was entangled in a kerfuffle with my wife at one time when I was reported that I was flirting with a woman I had just given a lift after a drinking spree in Ndola’s Chifubu Township a couple of years back although I did not even know the woman I was accused of flirting with her.
It was late in the night when I left the bar. I got into the vehicle and before I started the engine, a woman tapped on the window on the passenger’s side. I unwound the window to see who it was and this woman asked me for a lift because she was going the same direction I was going.
I told her that I did not know where she was going and I wondered why she said she was going the same direction I was going, but she told me that she knew me well and she knew my wife and my children.
She even named some of my children. I opened the door for her and she jumped in. I drove away from the bar and as I was about to make a turn to the road leading to my home, the woman asked me to drop her because she had reached her destination, which was indeed, not far from  my home.
She surely knew me and my family, I thought. But as she dropped off and waved me bye-bye, she was approached by some three women who were passing by. They knew the woman and they remained discussing as I drove off.
The following day and again late in the night when I got home, I found that my wife was not in good spirits.
When I asked what the matter was, she answered:”Who was that woman you were with last night. You even dropped her at her home after drinking.”
I was surprised! Surely, my wife did not see me with any woman although it was true I gave someone a lift and dropped her at a place near my home.
If it were not those three women, who were probably also my neighbours I saw talking to that woman I gave a lift after dropping her who told my wife, then hell knows who did. I tell you I was in trouble although it took time for my wife to understand me after explaining to her what really happened.
But last week, an incident happened at one of the bars I was drinking from in Chifubu Township. I was seated on a stool behind the counter with some friends when suddenly noise erupted behind us.
“Ninshi mulecita naya maule? Kale naumfwa nomba lelo namisanga.” (What are you doing with these whores? I heard about this a long time ago, but today I have found you.) shouted the woman.
I turned to see what was happening. Behind where we were seated, there was seated one man in a group of three women on a settee opposite his.
The man looked shocked!
His wife had just stormed the bar because she had been told by her neighbor that her husband was enjoying life with a woman in a bar.
“Nabanjeba  ukuti mulinomwanakashi,” (I have been told that you are with a woman) the woman snapped.
Perplexed at the turn of events, the man asked his wife to tell him who had peddled such a lie.
“Ine elyo nafika muno. Uukwebele ati ndi no mwanakashi kuno ninani?”
(I have just got to this place. Who has told you that I am with a woman here?) the man asked his wife.
“Bankashi muletekanya. Sonteni uuli na balume benu pano,” (Take it easy sister. Point at someone who is with your husband here), one of the women who was seated with two others on the opposite seat challenged her.
As the quarrelling persisted, a man walked into the bar and as he was approaching the counter, the woman saw that it was the neighbour who had told her about her husband being with a woman in the bar.
“Didn’t this man find you with a woman,” asked the woman pointing at the man who had just walked in.
When the man turned to look at the man his wife was pointing at, he found that it was a man who had just left the bar a few minutes ago.
The man turned to his wife and said loudly:”Acikweba shani ati ndi no mwanakashi pantu uyu muntu ni cibulu,” (How did he tell you that I was with a woman because this man is dumb?).
I looked at the man who had just walked in and I knew the man to be dumb for sure.
But as an eavesdropper, I was interested. Surely, how did the dumb person tell this woman that her husband was with a woman in the bar?
Then the woman tapped the dumb person on the shoulder. The man looked at the woman with a grin. The woman then started doing some sign language.
She pointed at the dumb person and then pointed on her chin and then on her breasts. This was indicating that she was asking the man whether it was not him who told her that his husband was in the bar with a woman.
The dumb person’s grin grew wider as people who were witnessing this burst out laughing.
“Acinsanga ninjikala apa naba abakashana bacinsanga pano. Acilanomba ubwalwa namweba ati nshikwete ulupiya efyo aciya. Kanshi acisa mukubepa ati ndi no mwanakashi?,” (He found me seated here and these young women found me here. He was asking for a beer from me and I told him I did not have money. So he came to tell you lies that I was with a woman?) said the man.
Looking ashamed, the woman left the bar angrily eyeing the dumb person.
After she left, her husband started accusing the man to be a very dangerous man who could cause problems for others.
But from the look of things, one of the women could have been the man’s lover, but the dumb person didn’t have words. I wish I could understand the signs he was making as they were seemingly arguing.
It appeared like the dumb was ‘saying’ the truth.

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