Never see come see...

Just like some of us 'overstays' and Quadrangle civil servants behave after our first, especially unexpected trips abroad, a sudden huge benefit can cause one to start acting vain; so prone to bringing the thing up in every conversation.

My idren Spoonhead was like that after his first-time one week trip from the US. He cannot go a whole day without humble bragging about the stuff he got from some store on Madison Avenue, and the functioning of a Toubab community, or how he witnessed some harmattan in Manhattan.

It's a 'never see come see effect,' you know, that practice of casually mentioning what one has, the places one's been to and so on, subtly implying that one's made, or familiar and all, usually to impress others.

I know, it can be annoying being the audience of such. But if you ask me, just try and bear with them; it's usually a different tendency to when the travels become frequent, or when one becomes adjusted to the status or benefit.