We own avocado but people eat it for us

There was an avocado tree planted at our compound by my father, the tree used to have so many fruits, and my father used to disallowed us from plucking the pear, he used to pluck it once, so that he will share it to his brothers.

So there was a certain year I told my father that the pear has grown to maturity, so he should asked someone to pluck it for the family, but he says, "it was not yet time to pluck the pear" therefore, we should give it three more months for the avocado pear to be well matured, because he wants it to be like, once we pluck the pear, it doesn't have to take long to be soft for consumption.

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Then I started noticing something, that a lot of pear's used to fall from the tree, and since I have already knew about the pear maturity, when i see that the fruit has falling, i will rush to pick it, but before I would go from the house to where the avocado pear was situated, someone else would pick it.

I wanted to eat avocado pear so much that very day, so I bring a mat and lay beside the avocado tree, but the funniest thing was that, the pear which used to fall anyhow, was not falling a single fruit, it was like the pear didn't want me to eat her fruit, it refused to fall and, while I was there beside the avocado tree, the weather began to change and I was happy, because it was a good sign that rain will fall, and the avocado fruit might fall in that vain.

Then an heavy rain started dropping down, yet nothing like pear was falling, I was beginning to think if I should go back to the house and forget about it, and then my uncle's wife came there and see me, she thought I have picked so many pear, so she wanted me to give her some, but I didn't pick any, within those times she was talking to me, the avocado pear fall just behind her and she picked it and go back to the house.

I was just there and I could not understand anymore, what I have done to the avocado tree, that it didn't want me to eat her fruit, so I go out from there and i cross to the road, I pluck this leaf called, awolowo leafs, the leaf is always green in colour, we used it to clean the blackboard in school.

I pluck many of the awolowo leaf and I used it to scrub the pear root, I used my hands and trace it root that was coming out from the ground, and I continue to scrub the awolowo leafs on it root, what I did was like feeding her green leaf (maure) so in return, I wanted her to allow her fruits to fall, I finished the first round of the feeding and I go to pluck the awolowo leaf again, so that I continue feeding the avocado root with manure.

But before I could cross the road, father came back from work and see's me attempting to cross the road, it was something he didn't want me to be doing, so he calls me to get back home, I hurriedly gets back to the house, he saw the mat besides the avocado tree and he took it home, I was walking and be talking in my mind, I wish father let's me feed the avocado tree one more time, it should have give me her fruit, if I tell him the pear has reached maturity, he wouldn't even want to believe.

Each time I came out to fetch water, I would see people picking the avocado fruit, but if I wait for it to fall, so that I take it home and show it to my father that, it is time for him to pluck the pear, the pear wouldn't want to fall, then i will have to wait for nothing, reaching home mother would have to scold me for delaying.

That was how others people eat all the avocado fruit in the tree and I didn't taste any, not even my father or my mother eaten any, yet my father still believe he owns the avocado tree.