Cocaine, glock and how not to make your wife give you blow..

Palymra
The joys of travelling in public transportation to Berbice, waiting for the car/bus to full. A cheerful man is in the car, glad to see me so we could gaff. We do the usual where you come from where you going. The chip man throw four pack plaintain chip and one pack cassava chip in the car and tell me $300. Something about Berbice breeze, I start on the plaintain chip. The front seat man say he dont want any, is okay. He going on a medical appointment, kidney stones. We start comparing our kidney stones, remedies, doctors, treatments. Well he do most of the talking because I move on to the next plaintain chip and then the cassave chips so I can't talk. The front seat man say I should go back to Corriverton and walk and he willing to host me after the holidays. He say he is a batchie though so you only cook when you hungry. Nice thing about many Guyanese, very open , hospitable.

He say the medical apointment will cost $200,000. He is holding on to his bag close, and I think, oh lord, this man sit down here with $200,000 cash?

The driver take us out and put us in another car. Mosquito and sandfly biting, though not like when you used to wait at the ferry. The new driver, the front seat man, and me establish our degrees of connection. The front seat man and me know my relatives; the front seat man know the 'businessman' the driver used to work with up near Skeldon; and the driver used to work for one of my uncles for years.

Another man come in the car and sit down next to me.  Another man come in the car, he quiet. The driver know he.

Rosignol to Fort Wellington

We start the journey, we go over the bridge. Front seat man, back seat man and driver know a big man from up Skeldon. J**i (he who shall not be named). They talk about the man, his money, the boats and they calling the name loudly. They say the man know to do business, he got business all over the world, in every country. Front seat man say he cannot do cocaine, he dont want to dead. They say that you can never leave the cocaine business, plenty robbery with dead is cocaine business. When they come to shoot you. The driver say no no, and I get a lil worried, the driver come out of the cocaine trade?

Back seat man close to me talk about how Glock is the best gun, how the new ones could sense your hand print. They talk about AK47 and how they cheap. Front man say he have 9mm at home. Driver say he like some kind of rifle. They say the police vest cannot resist .38 bullet.  The other man in the back seat light up a cigarette. Place dark.

Fort Wellington to Weldaad (I think)
They say how the AK47 is a powerful weapon, not made to fail. The back seat man say Israel build its power on the AK47. The Jews rich, that is why the Americans and Russians supporting them. Front seat man explain history how Israel was part of the Palestine. They talk about various great men. Back seat man say that they dont talk about the small men, the soldiers who fight the battle. You only hear about the generals and the kings.

Hopetown
The front seat man say 'Kissoon, you quiet".. driver say this is a quiet Kissoon and talk about the other Kissoon he used to work with. Back seat man next to me who know everybody say, dat man is a scamp. He and his son only know to use people he say. He lend dem two bull and dey ungrateful. Front seat man and driver dont say nothing about how the back seat man is cuddling up with one of the scamp nephew. I keep my mouth shut so I could hear more bad talk about me family. And he say,that they have better lawyer out there. He name the best lawyer in Guyana, who name always in papers.. then everybody laugh because we say the reason the man name in the papers is he now doing the drug cases. Turns out that back seat man also related to this man and know how much money he get from every drugs case.
The other man who light up a cigarette again, this man quiet , he aint saying a word he not laughing, nothing.


Bush Lot
They say the country now run by drugs. Front seat man say that Guyanese should be able to stay and work. Driver say that too, he work all over this country. Driver, Front seat man, back seat man say that the PNC and the PPP ruin this country. Back seat man say look how America, 300 million white people and 20 million black people, and how they vote for Obama. They vote for change. When will that happen in Guyana? Driver say that who you gun vote fuh? Front seat man say WPA he like, but he dont hear about them. Back seat man dont offer no options. (AFC have to do plenty wuk in Berbice) . Front seat man though say Jagdeo is a good man, he doing good. Back seat man say yes, Jagdeo is a good man, but he got plenty a*s*h*le around he. I dont say nuttin. Driver aint say nuttin. The other man still quiet.

Mahaicony to Mahaica

They say how drugs ruin children life. Front seat man start to talk about children these days, how they bad. How they stop beating them and look how they bad. Front seat man say that the only way to teach children is to go with them, to expose them, Carry them every way with you and teach them or else they going to do bad thing. Driver say he agree. Driver say he could never tell he father he had girl-friend. Driver and back seat man got plenty story about school girl gone wild. I shut my mouth but I laughing at the jokes when they laughing. The other man quiet. Driver say that is plenty lie going on in family.

Mahaica to Buxton
Front seat man say that is true, the man in 72 chop up he wife like beef because he could not stand the cheating. Back seat man say he have a friend who didn't believe when he hear he wife giving he blow. Back seat man say they set she up. Man tell he wife he gone far, but then he come to the back door and padlock the outside and come to the front door. The man in the house. He tell he wife to pack up and get out. Front seat man, say, he is a wise man, he did not beat up or kill or chop up. Driver say that is true. Back seat man then tell he own story, how he fuss wife tek a man home while he was out buying sheep. He explain how he set up he wife. He tell she to go long she way. Front seat man say how some woman bad. Driver say, but wait wait.. you cant blame the woman,she going to get what she not getting from the man. He say when man worry with money, they forget the time with the woman

Driver say, that when woman give man blow, is for a reason. Some want finance, some is romance. Back seat man quiet. The other man quiet too.
Front seat man say that he study 'sexual intercourse' and that they have something named petlove - breeze in my ears, but I sure is that what I hear.

Buxton to LBI

The drive ask wat is petlove.. and the man explain.. .... .... ... Driver say he know about dat... .... .... Dey all know man who lef dey nice nice wife and go red dragon. Front seat man say he never have sex with a prostitute. Driver say prostitute is a woman with a license, we do not have that in Guyana. They have that in Suriname. Driver say that men have to learn. he say how Brazil does... ... .... and dat is all dey do... ... .... In my head I wondering is how he know dat. Like he read my mind, next ting Driver say he know because he go to hotel in eteribang and peep dem and see what dey do.. ... ..

All de men in the back seat quiet.

LBI - Montrose
Front seat man and Driver say dat man have to understand dat if they like cheat, dat woman have nature too and nothing wrong. back seat man say yes is true, dat is not only man have needs. Driver say that also some woman dont know what they dont have, but they friend does put it in dey head. So you have to listen who dey friend is and what dey saying.

Montrose ...
All ah we talk we directions to where we going. All except the man with the cigarette.