GUYANESE DOES GAT MEANING FUH EVERY DREAM!

Dem boys hope de police deh pun de roadthiscomingSunday Delasttimedem had horseracing in West Berbice was a nightmare.Trafficbackupfuhmilesandall becausesomepeoplenahwantwaitinline andcreatedemownline.

So dis weekend, dem boys hoping no confusionnahgantekplacebecausedelast time people miss dem flight to de airport. But dem boys want to wish all de people wahgoingtoderacesagoodtime.

Was only yesterday, dem boys see a video punTikTok featuring de former and late President of de United States, Ronald Regan.Hetalkdestoryofdemanwahbin anxiousfuhgotodehorseraces.Hewasso anxiousdathedreamaboutanumber5. Deh gat nuff people in Guyana does followdemdreams.Ifdemdreamanumber, demdoesgoandbuylottoandmeksuredat number deh in de combination wah dem pick. ago screaming to the top of his voice. He had been reducedtofeeblesqueak.

If dem dream about certain food, dem doesrushtodmarketandbuydatfoodfuh eat.Guyanesepeopleverysuperstitiousjust likedemanwahbindreamaboutdenumber 5.

So de man turn up at de horse racing track.Hepickupde programmeandteka lookatdelistingfuhatde5thrace.Hescroll down to number 5. He see de horse name was5by5.Wellthatdiditfuhdeman.He decidedathegattofollowhedream.Istoo much coincidence! He bent all de money pundenumber5indefifthrace. And sure enough… de horse came in fifth.

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We stood in line like sentries Everything was quiet. You could hear the drop of a cotton ball. The staff moved around behind the teller lines with vigour No one seemed to be idle. Even the lady sitting behind a desk was concentrating on the papers in front of her And unless you could read lips, you could not tell what they were saying to each otherwhentheydidspeak.

Someone coughed in the line. It was like a gunshot. Everything stopped. Even thetellersbehindthecounter lookeduptoseefromwhere thesoundemanated.

Itwasafellowinfrontof us. I prayed that a sneeze would not follow Or worse yet a fart In this environment that would be like sending a bomber into action.

Eventuallyourturncame and we went to the head of the queue The banking operations in Guyana are now computerised but it seems to have made only a marginal impact on the time it takes to complete a transaction.

But there is really no main difference between the service time here and overseas where the lines fortunately move much quicker and are usually shorter We completed what we wentforandbeganourexit.I noticed my friend was walking on his toes, not wanting his shoes to squeak on the floor and disturb the p e a c e Aswepushedthedooropen and stepped onto the pavementmyfriendcameto life.

“Whew!” He said. “That was an experience!” He hailed a cab. Rather he screamed for one. His voice could have been heard right to the next corner He was b a c k t o n o r m a l AsIwalkedaway,oneofthe vendorsapproachedme. He was pedaling framed quotations I was not interested.Buttheoneontop of the pile caught my eye. It read.“Quietspeechisamark ofrefinement.”

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