My First Lecture… continued

Regurgitating line by line, word for word from notes on my laptop screen, in embeddings of the Southern England tinge I began to speak on elements of a ‘Contract’.  It was with the question ‘…Are all Agreements Contracts?’ I sought to engage. However, from the squint in their eyes, the frowns burrowed on some foreheads, and the puzzled look in some eyes I realised I was losing them. In puzzlement I thought I had up until now never met a rhetorical challenge without a triumph. 

I decided now was the time for innovation, inventiveness and creativity and abandoned the ineffective crouch my laptop had become.  I drew on something out of the realms of the dramatic that lay latent within me.  I was translated in time to my days at King’s College when I was Vice-President of the African and Dramatic Society and I featured in a few drama sketches. I identified two students beckoned on them to rise up from their seats and to come to the front of the class. I announced to the incredulity of the class the intention to put up a drama sketch and then proceeded to give the budding actors some hastily crafted lines. One acted as the father and the other as a University student. 

The script followed with the father making a grandiose promise to purchase a brand new Mercedes-AMG C43 4Matic Coupe, which features a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 that develops 362 hp and 384 lb-ft of torque and a all-wheel-drive system with a rear-biased torque distribution for more neutral handling, and a gearbox which has two additional gears for a total of nine If his daughter was able to achieved a first class degree from Lead City University. 

With scrupulous fidelity to the script the daughter made the first class and then approached the father to fulfill the terms of the earlier agreement.  The father balked and gave her N200,000 to celebrate with her friends, suggesting the promise was simply made as an encouragement to heights so great. The daughter refused his gift and entreaties insisting on the fulfillment and complete settlement of the promise. With the father unrelenting, the drama ended with my question on whether the daughter could successfully sue the father.