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Jul 02, 2008 Features / Columnists
The Parrot, from my vantage point perched high up, has always taken an aerial view of the “keep fit” craze that has taken Guyana by storm over the years.
Given my anatomical make-up, there seems to be no need for me to venture into the “hustle and bustle” that permeates the National Park and the Sea Wall, as all and sundry “compete” to burn the calories. Mine are burnt when I take flight from tree to tree.
However, I do encourage fellow avis to take advantage of any available time to ensure that the sebaceous glands that dominate the skin secrete the sometimes pungent droplets called sweat, following a rigorous physical exertion.
This can mean so many things, but I am simply referring to a normal exercise routine; it is healthy.
While it is safe to say that the vast majority exercise to keep physically fit in an effort to prevent themselves from being affected by related illnesses, others get involved for different reasons.
Whatever the reasons, people, including Guyanese, are extremely health conscious, and are doing the “thing”— exercising, that is— like crazy.
Young and old, slim and the “unslim”, the “can walks” and the “can hardlys”, the affluent and those aspiring to be, Police and thieves, and even some drivers. The “thing”, still referring to exercise, is really big.
Is it any coincidence that the increase in investment in fast food “joints” is proportionate to the increase of the phenomenon, the exercise “thing” that is, which may be proportionate to the increase in sales of “brand-name” clothes that the vast majority who are doing the “thing”, exercising, that is, wear?
Anyway, that’s food for thought; back to the exercising. The Parrot noticed that every driver exercises when heading east along the East Coast Demerara Public Road, as they are about to approach the Sparendaam Police Station. They exercise caution because a number of Traffic Policemen/women are on the road. They’re “exercising” also; they constantly lift the radar guns from a vertical position, pointing downwards, to a horizontal one at the coming vehicles.
This phenomenon, the East Coast thing, that is, which has become a daily routine for some time now, is a case where the induction effect of an action is evident.
The Police “exercise” and drivers automatically follow suit; the Police raising the guns, radar, that is, fast- fast, and the drivers driving slow-slow.
The parrot therefore wonders how, with the Policemen/women on the road outside the station “exercising”, and with slow moving vehicles, did “Skinny” escape fast-fast?
Obviously, the radar “exercise” wasn’t directed at him. If it was, then he would have had to slow down like the minibus drivers who can’t wait to pass the “exercising” officers” to do what he, “Skinny”, doing now — speeding.
Given the swiftness of his “escape”, his ability to go undetected by “radar,” and the current hunt for him, he has to be fit; a physical state that is achieved by being conscious of the need to be so.
Being on the run and with a name like “Skinny”, his being health conscious is an understatement. This consciousness is amplified by having a “mentor” called “Fine Man”— a name that represents a physical state that the “unslim”, regardless of gender, would love to achieve.
It seems that those who are most wanted, given their “names” and their elusiveness, are overly health conscious. With the Police relentlessly on a mission to have “Skinny”, “Fine Man” and associates stop “exercising”, would we see HG commencing an exercise routine? Not the one alluded to on the East Coast.
Squawk! Squawk!
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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