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Nov 09, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
A lexicographer, wherever he/she is living in this world, should come to Guyana to coin some new adjectives that best describe this land. By now, words like, “God-forsaken,” ”rotten,” “tragic,” “primitive,” “lost,” “unbelievable,” are too hackneyed and fail to convey the horror story that Guyana is. What word best describes this stupid country?
Last month my garden gloves collapsed. I went to Giftland Office Max to get a replacement. I took the item to the cashier, paid and walked out. I accidentally gathered the gloves with the bushes and branches and threw then into the bin last Thursday. They were carted off by the garbage truck before I realized my mistake.
On Thursday morning, I went back to Giftland Office Max to buy another pair. They didn’t have the cheap type I purchased last month. I went to National Hardware next door. As readers would know, I had made claims against the owner of National Hardware, Mr. Eddie Boyer, that he had assaulted me over issues relating to him that the Kaieteur News had published.
Since that time I stopped my patronage of National Hardware. I shifted from that position on the thought that Guyanese harbour too much animosity in their culture. So last year I walked back into National Hardware. Last Thursday, I selected a pair of garden gloves and was about it to take to the cashier when I was stopped by a sales attendant.
You don’t shop like that at National Hardware. You give the attendant the item, then, a piece of cardboard is given to you with a code on it. You take the “dutty” piece of cardboard to the cashier where you pay. Then you wait in line for the delivery clerk to give you your stuff. Shopping next to me was the brother of the famous Guyanese entrepreneur, Lyla Kissoon, of AH&L Kissoon.
I pointed out to him the silly, primitive way of National Hardware. He smiled. Then the gentleman and I met up once more at the delivery counter where there is no first come- first serve system. Mrs. Kissoon’s brother, Mr. Sankar, was attended to before me, even though I had made my purchase before him.
I jokingly alerted him to that anarchy and he smiled again and politely told me that he was glad that at his age he doesn’t have to go shopping often. The same day I bought my gloves at National Hardware, the owner was in the news as part of a delegation from the Private Sector Commission that met with the President to discuss Guyana’s future. I wonder if making Guyana modern, with modern type of shopping, was a topic that Mr. Boyer brought up with the President.
Last Thursday wasn’t my day. After going home in a vexed mood with what I had to endure at National Hardware, I picked up the newspapers and my vexed mood deteriorated badly. It was reported in the court section of the newspapers that a homeless man was caught stealing mangoes from the compound of Banks DIH. He admitted the crime on the excuse that he was hungry. Nevertheless he was charged and placed before the courts.
The company that caused him to be charged is heartless. The police that charged him are ignorant, stupid people. And the magistrate who tried the case had absolutely nothing to do with her time. What word best describes Guyana?
Since we are on the subject of Banks DIH that likes to charge homeless people, let me end with the impeccable professionalism of Banks DIH. My wife likes Banks’ cheese scone, I like their Chinese cake. I have to pass the Banks DIH outlet, OMG, on Campbell Avenue and Sheriff Street three times a day. So twice a week, I buy cheese scone and Chinese cake there and this has been going on for a long time now.
They put the pastries in little plastic bags so you have to be careful how you walk with them to the car because they can easily fall out. I requested a large plastic bag with handle. The sales woman told me she would like give me one, but the policy is the bigger bag is only for customers who buy two loaves of bread and more. I asked her the cost of two loaves of bread. It is $560. My pastry purchases always come up to over $900, yet I have to accept them in little plastic bags.
I went to see the manager of the OMG branch, Mrs. Harper. She agreed in future to give me a large bag. I told her it must be for all customers who spend over $560. What bag did Banks DIH use to put the mangoes in when they arrested the homeless man? What word best describes Guyana?
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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