Communication in this ol’ house can proper get bruka-down. Anybody would think that in one house with just two people, this wouldn’t happen.
Heh.
For years I, the good daughter, been teaching my mother all kinda new health tips, things older folks here never learn in their young days. Things like how to NOT ketch the flu - wash hands, don’t touch face.
The other day, I spot a news item in we papers. Ha. I, good daughter, gon pounce ‘pon this opportunity to teach health tip again.
“Aiyeee, mummyyyy, swine flu come to Guyana. You must keep your nose away from your face!”
“Eh?”
I raise me voice, speak slow, stop after each word to let it sink in. “Swine. Flu. In. Guyana. Keep. Your. Nose. Away. From. Your. Face.”
“What?!?”
Sigh. I weary tell my mother to go to Dr. Vaipree to check she ears, but y’know, the older you get, the more stubborn you get. Sigh, if in a’ ordinary home this does happen, what you expect between two big-big nations? Eh?
Friday, July 10, 2009
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How do you keep your nose away from your face?
GG: I'm with Mum and John. How DO you keep your nose away from your face? Do tell:)
Keep your NOSE away from your face??? Now how in the world does one go about doing that??
I thought it was hands away from your face. Maybe the nose is a Guyanese thing.
haha..yuh bazadee baaad..tell mommy i say take off her nose an put it in wan glass near she bed at night..oh-tay?
dat reminds me of when she does killl ah halla for you wen she deh hey....me an dem boys duz giggle...hehehhe
Keep nose away from face? Who said that?!?
Well! Look at my crosses. KFM says I'm 'bazadee'! As in 'nuts'.
Anyway, that sounds like a good idea to keep away the flu. Put yer nose in a glass of water near yer bed at night.
Would that be like cutting off yer nose to spite yer face, though?
Hello!!!
An ex-blogger here that's come back to the fold. Check out my blog. You might remember it.
Are you on Facebook??
i want to see who can make her get on facebook...who out there can convince her?LOL....
gyal, if all else fail, tie she haan dem up...
wow, even Guyana couldn't keep out the swine flu? i blame that Harry Potter movie kid.
I would suggest the cups-on-a-string method. Seems to work pretty well for communication around my house.
Cofo, those things would break down in Guyana. I don't know how or why but this is Guyana and things fall apart just so, haha. Ha.
Cadiz, I blame people who don't stay home from work. We should all stay home from work [if we work in an office] if we have the flu. Says me.
A former co-worker once sneezed on me, ewwwwww, then I caught his flu.
KFM, Facebook too public. I don't know why you all think so much of it.
Yes, tie your modda hands, yeah, right, good suggestion, hm, yeah.
Hakeem, hello! Welcome back. Of course I remember your blog, the last time I read it you were teaching, I think.
Then you left. And all your old posts are gone. Hope life's been good to you.
it not too pooblix..go see if you kyan get on me wan...is caz i set it up in a certain way...
GG
Since when children teach parents things!!! I hope your mother box your ears or NOSE for saying that you teach her things:))
Stay away from facebook. BAD BAD place.
Exotic Gyal
All these noses and faces - not to mention facebook - are confusing me.
Anyway, lets hope that the swine flu that's reached you is still the mild strain. But, better still, hope you don't catch it.
Facebook is bad only if YOU make it so. I have had it for 2 years and have reconnected with my friends from high school and college and I keep in touch with many of our family members.
KFM, I ain't doing fazebook. I does keep in touch wit' fambly via email. As for friends...real ones know where to find me and I know where to find them.
And too besides, as if blogging ain't enough!
Plus, I got one million stories to write.
Sab, me too, even a normal cold I don't want.
Exotic Gyal, you are promoting voylence, what a thing! Would that be domestic voylence if my mother gimme two box on me head?
As for fazebook, I agree with you, I don't know why I agree haha...but instinct is strong.
"...the older you get, the more stubborn you get"
We have a saying here: "Don't try to teach your Grandmother how to suck eggs".
In other words, old people think they know everything and the younger generation know nothing, and they resent you telling them what to do!
But we all know that when you reach 16yrs old you know everything there is to know!
Keith, haha, yes, I remember that phase where I knew EVERYTHING.
I even remember my po' father saying to me once, 'You think because you're going to university now you know everything.'
I had the grace to feel shame [but only a little].
I realise now I ain't know NOTHING and he was right about what we'd been discussing.
Help.
Or is it a good thing? To realise that you don't know much?
i don't see the problem here... i've been successfully keeping my nose away from my face for years... it's my bloody eyes that are giving me the trouble!!!
and i think it is a wonderful thing to realise that you don't know much - it's one more step on the path to ultimate wisdom... which we never get by the way...
keep mi nose from mi face? well i might as well give up now
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