lighten your day with this joke

Please join me in thanking God o!
Tomorrow is the last day...

It was february 2011, and I just started comedy by then, the highest
amount I had gotten paid for an event was 1,500 naira (one thousand
five hundred).. Some times, I trek to an event and trek home too....
Then one friday I just came back from an event where I was paid 800
naira, as I was about to take off my clothes for a nap, My phone rang.
I picked up my phone and saw it was a call from a number that started
with +229.. "This person isn't calling from Nigeria, Nigeria's code is
+234, it has to be from
abroad" I thought to my self so I picked the call and the next thing I heard
was: " Good day, am Marion by name, I stay in Benin Republic. Am I
speaking with James?"
With the way he sounds, I never
answered a question without a sir at the end. He said he wants me to
perform for 10mins in an event at Cotonou, on the 3rd of march and I
would be paid 10,000 CEFA (Benin Republic's currency). I agreed and
thanked him with passion.
I wish I knew how much 10,000 CEFA in Cotonou is in Nigeria..
Immediately after the call, because I could not convert 10,000 CEFA
into Nigeria currency and know how much it would be, I ran to my
mathematics teacher, who stayed few miles away and she worsen the
case.
By the time I got to her place, out of
happiness that someone abroad had called my number, I forgot the name
of the country and the currency So I told my mathematics teacher that
I had an event abroad and would be paid 10,000 in the country's
currency but I can't remember the country nor the currency..
My mathematics teacher said since I can't remember the country and the
currency, let's use U.S.A as the country and Dollar as the currency,
She said:
1 naira =150 dollar, So..
10 dollar=1500 naira..
100 dollar=15000 naira
1000 dollar=15 000 000 naira
Therefore.. 10,000 dollar= 15 000 000 000 naira (15 billion) see where
she missed it?

At this point, tears begin to drop down my eyes.. I bought 5000 naira
recharge card for my mathematics teacher as her share, on my way home,
I began to wonder.. In Nigeria I talk for 45 minutes and they pay me
1000 but now am talking for 10 minutes and
they want to pay 15 billion... I had to call Mr Marion to confirm how
much I'll b paid and he repeated 10 000 CEFA (that was when I
remembered CEFA was the currency in question but I felt it doesn't
matter again ).. When I got home, I told my dad and mum to leave our 2
rooms and lodge in a 3*** Hotel, eat anything and demand for anything
until I come back....

When I got to the venue at Cotonou and
performed for just 10mins (with 15 billion, in my brain).. It was as
if I was cheating Mr Marion. I beg him to perform for at least 1hour
but he said I was booked for just 10mins.. I wasn't satisfied, I went
outside and started cracking jokes to the market women and passers
by.. Because to me, 15billion is too much for 10 minutes..
After the event he gave me the money, a note, 10 000 was written on
it.. I was glad... When I got home, my house was full of people I know
and people I don't ..
As a new billionaire, I told everybody to collect recharge card from
someone dat sells nearby.. So they all collected 1,000 naira recharge
card each..
After that I asked them to order for anything of their choice from the
hotel's restaurant, while I went to the
bank to change the money...
On my way to the bank I carry 2 big bags because 15 billion isn't a
small money and I chartered one taxi for 10,000 naira.... When I got
to the bank I
gave the lady my 10 000 CEFA and my 2 bags. She asked me what are the
bags for? I said "to put the money of course" The way she smiled, I
knew she wanted me to give her small money..
Then i said "don't worry beggar, I will give you something" She
entered one room and came out with my 2 bags inside a polythene bag
then she gave me 3,200 naira.. I started shouting that I came here
first and she was answering someone else before me. After much
explanation, It was then
I knew that
100 dollar =1500 naira but
100 CEFA =25 naira..)
Since 2011 I have washed dishes and cleaned the restaurant for 1 year
then I washed clothes and even wash the workers clothes too, sometimes
I go to their various houses to work ..
But.....
Tomorrow is the last day...
Thank God!!!