They have so much admiration for anything Eritrean, which shows in their infantile adoration for "Mussie".
They would look at him with big wide eyes as if he was a Hollywood star
And the thing they admired most was the way he smoked his cigarettes, just like what they imagined how an "Asmarino" guy would do
Hiluf and Seyoum Mesfin would look at him as if he was the "Marlboro man" himself from a western film.
He jokes about how he used to eat "sekondo" in Asmara, when the fara Seyoum asked for shiro "chimari" in a tela bet in Adi Daero.
The funny thing is that Mehari Tecle was a poor disadvantaged guy in Asmara, a "fara" who never picked up the bad habit of smoking
But in Tigrai, he was instant celebrity, a sophisticated guy and the whole TPLF would go on a hunting expedition to get him cigarette
They would do anything for an Asmarino guy, who they admire so much.
No wonder they hate us now, when their admiration and love gestures were rejected.
I wish I lived in Tigrai during my stud days, with the instant celebrity status I'd get, I'd have fathered 10 Meqele kids in just one summer