If you are a late 70's kid or 80's to 90's kid, you must know the lamp, popularly called "lantern". After the era of bush lamps, " lantern" lit up homes, since power supply is epileptic in this part of the world or nonexistent in rural areas.

It happened that towards the evenings, say before 6pm, it is the duty of children to clean up it's "gloves" which is made of glass, before putting it on as the day get darker.

If you aren't careful, before you remove it from its housing, so that you can remove soot inside the lamp frame and clean the glass glove, it can get broken. This attracts slaps, "konks" (okpo-Ibo language), strokes of the cane and so on.


Today, rechargeable torches, solar powered lights and so on is phasing out the lantern.

Share your experience.

Cc: lalasticlacla, mynd44, Ishilove, dominique, Seun

I still use it till date in my home...my husband does not joke with it.

My son cracked the globe some days ago...but old soldier never dies.


Lolz!

NwaAmaikpe,

Sometimes, the soot de hard to clean sef.

You fit clean am come carry black face de waka unknowingly


check my siggy jare

That glass had more values in our various homes then than these modern days Iphones

Haha.

Breaking this was a case of knowing your fate. Just help yourself and hide the canes you know can break your morale for a week.

Do well to keep only feeble canes in plain sight to avoid receiving "Reseting Knocks"

I remember dis

every 6pm na to wash this Glass


I broke about 5 or more

I don't think this Glass reach 20 naira then , but I received beating of 2k each time

touch it Omo water , it will start running like testicle

most of us that are careful today...got it from this.

perhaps am the only one havent broke any...

What is even more strange is seeing peeps still using lantern and candles in the ear of rechargable lanterns.

That dreadful alakoba. I haven't seen it in ages! How time flies.

I hated to wash this thing and basically, that was my job every evening....to was lantern bulb.

donbachi:
most of us that are careful today...got it from this.

True talk.

perhaps am the only one who havent broke any...

What is even more strange is seeing peeps still using lantern and candles in the ear of rechargable lanterns.

I so hated washing it...the soot no be here

Once you break this shade...

Just remember Jesus last statement on the cross ""It is finished""

hmmm, only God can decide your destiny in that house... You will definitely suffer like a market thief....

Wow, thanks for this Memory dear , l almost forgotten!

There were days I used to think I was adopted because of the kind beating I dey chop for breaking this nonsense!!

Fling ii too fast, it will slide​ of your hand. Try putting all your fingers inside as you wash it ,it will breakout. Hit it slightly on any hard surface it will break. And because it's transparent you will mistakenly kick it or step on it even though you're still the one that placed it on the floor few minutes ago.

Eventually they stop sending me to wash it, and they sound alarm whenever​ it's in my immediate surrounding.

LMAO @ the replies

Anybody that successfully washed it without breaking it should serve as. PMB's media aide.Both are related cos you need so much carefulness,patience and smartness.


It dread being called to wash it

You mistakenly break one small part. You do minor surgery by using paper to hold it and put that side by your bed only for smoke and fiam fire!!
Mama be like so you don broke am again ?

Sorry, can’t relate. What is this bulb for? Or .

Edited:
It’s a lantern glass thing... oh ok! *Shakes my butty yansh out of thread* ... never experienced this item and I am seeing it for the first time

Hahaha

Good old days.

But where Una de go bring out these things from sef?

Some families still use this. No, families in the rural areas still use this.

There is that open flame thing called mpanaka. Grannies use that a lot. Then there is that concotion formed from palm fruit. Infact, many ways to lit up the house.

Not beaten but verbally bashed severally!

Washing it while it was still hot turned out to be a disaster on its own. I think that made it crack.

With time I got to realise our parents bought the knockoff globes. EMEL had one of the best lantern products then.