The next decade....what's in store?

On the road today

A few things...

1. Driving on the road in Kingston is torture. People are mean and impatient. Shotta M will back me up on that.

2. At the traffic light by South Avenue and Constant Spring Road, a boy knocks on the passenger glass. Normally I would have indicated to him through the closed window that I had nothing. Instead, I rolled down the window and asked if I could him. He said "Miss, beg yuh a money nuh?"

My reply was this. "Sorry, I don't have anything to give you. I'm poor like you. I'm unemployed so don't look at the car I am driving and think that I'm rich, because I'm not." He said ok and walked to the car behind me.

Here's a look at the car I was driving...A Volvo S80.

3. Service is poor in some of our stores. Went into a couple of stores today and no one said "hello, how may I help you?" Only in Spencers Tailoring Establishment did that occur. You'd think that I'd have plenty of work, but people don't want to spend money on people development.

4. Discovered a new hair and nails place in the same plaza that houses the new post office for our area. It's called Images and it's new. Eight hundred dollars for a pedicure, so I'm going to try out the staff there on my yamfeet and see how it goes. The other place I go to is off Red Hills Road which is in Kingston 19. I live in Kingston 6. It too far. Although it's $600 there. We shall see.

5. Saw three policemen on motor cycles driving and looking like they wanted to arrest somebody, so I made sure to drive within the speed limit. The car kinda speeds away very quickly so have to be careful. Then soon after, saw a police car tearing up the road, sirens blaring, horns-a-honking.

I have to confess. I would love to see the police in action shooting gunmen. I like action movies. Heat is my favourite. But so far, no TV crew has managed to capture that. And I not joining the police force to find out.

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I spent far too long on the road today. We should never have allowed all those cars into the island. We should be like Bermuda where they have a law allowing only one car per family. Our family would suffer though.

Posted by yamfoot at August 30, 2005 09:01 PM