A Rasta, a scrawny Indian and a driver who cannot be clearly seen, all in a white pickup truck, pull up to my aunt's house before 9am this morning.
The Indian, with the Rasta trailing behind, get out of the truck, and walking to her front gate the Indian starts calling "Good morning, I here for the air-conditioner maintenance. We have an appointment for today".
My aunt says, "But who send you?" knowing full well she hasn't made any appointment to get any unit checked.
The Indian says, "The boss man"
Aunt replies "I don't have any appointment for today."
Full well boldface the Indian replies, "Can I come inside for a minute to use your phone? I will call the boss to make sure the appointment is for here."
My aunt must have the words DUMB ASS tattooed on her forehead.
Resisting the urge to cuss this man she just says 'Sorry but we didn't make any appointment for today, and I can't let you in the house', closes her front door and watches them walk back to the van and drive away.
Now that Christmas is over and Carnival is coming up, every crook will do whatever it takes to get their fete money, money for their costume and money necessary to keep up with the Joneses. They will become more desperate and I expect to see an increase in petty theft, armed robbery and full out robbing of retail stores, (was it Excellent Stores in Port of Spain that bandits did a major number on last year just before Carnival? I'm not sure, I'll have to check and get back to you.)
Anyway, be very careful this year, let's try to have a safe season leading up to Carnival. The economy is bad, people are losing their jobs and we know what this leads to... desperation and crime.
One a positive note, a number of us were driving Eastbound near Pasea on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway around 11pm this weekend gone, and we saw police patrols up and down both sides of the highway! Not only was there a VISIBLE police presence monitoring the roads, the patrol in the Eastbound lane pulled over a speeding car! Is this a one time thing for drunken holiday drivers? I hope not.
All nonsense about the Police aside, if their presence was constantly visible on the roads, speeders, people who run red lights and those drunken holiday drivers would think twice about endangering the rest of us law-abiding people.
Here's to hoping we have a more VISIBLE police patrol on the roads at rush hour, in the day, and at night helping us to have a safer 2009. Here's to hoping those dumb ass criminals call on somebody with a big shotgun next time.
A Safe and Happy 2009 to all!
Well, thanks for the info.
I just want to emphasize that we shouldn't watch out of Indians, truckers or "rasta people" but everyone we don't know, whoever and whatever they are.
The risk just isn't worth it!
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