The way we used to show our teachers in Primary School our "maturity" in 1980s was to refuse to carry lunch to school. As teenage boys; we could not understand how as fully grown men" we could walk around carrying food. We chose to starve like men. When teachers came hard on us, some boys chose to carry food to school just to show the teachers but refused to eat it. Today; my agemates crowd the kitchen at 5.30 in the morning scooping food to carry to work. Others never forget to ask their wives "umeniwekea lunch kwa hio bag ya laptop? Some of the tall spectacled men in suits and briefcases you see in town are actually food carriers. That laptop bag is full of burnt chapati and matumbo soup. Trouble is how female colleagues in the office derisively look at the packed lunch over lunch hour and ask your husbands haki mtu anakupikia chakula mathogothanio hivyo? Hajui wewe ni Divisional Head? Kwani hujawahi mwambia wewe ni Regional Manager IT? Yaani a whole Marketing Director; Nairobi and Mt Kenya region unapikiwa mchele ndengu bila spices? Earning bonga points . illegally.