That guy gives me the creeps even in a picture!
That guy gives me the creeps even in a picture!
Trip #59 most of February
Power Strap sorta looks like Ray RayOriginally Posted by Kahuna3
Really enjoyed your reporting.Thanks for sharing the good,the bad,and the ugly !
I do not believe I have ever seen a single trip report on this board with so many views. Maybe you have the workings of another book here.
Kahuna3 - I have thoroughly enjoyed your reports! Love your style. I think you should stay a few more weeks until the Spring thaw!
Renkie... is that the guy that always used to piss his pants?... hahaha
love the report and love how you keep it real!
I truly love the way you can't paint a picture with a few words - I agree with the others - you should stay longer, you don't want to come back here yet!
I will buy the book!
Ya Mon...Heading home
10/9-10/16 @ Idle Awhile & the Zoo!
3/14-3/21 @ The Zoo
It is so so cold here. Niagara will have it's coldest day in months tomorrow. Stay where you are and tell us more stories.
Extend!
Thank you all for the positive comments. Much appreciated.
Tomorrow is my last day – and I’m ready to go back home. The main reason being that I miss Bea. If she was here and we had comfortable accommodations, we would stay until Spring Thaw up north.
More POWER STRAP!
I ran into POWER STRAP! walking the beach last night just after sunset.
“Where yuh dawtah?” he asked me. Recall I’d told him that one of the Triplets was my daughter.
“She goa foreign,” I replied. He seemed disappointed.
Since he’d told us that he’d fathered twenty-three daughters I’d been sceptical, so I said, “Power Strap, don’t take this wrong, but I find it hard to believe that you have twenty-three kids.”
“Yah mon!” he said. “You doan believe me? I can prove it!” He pulled out his phone and dialed a number. When the person answered he said, “Yasheen! Dis white man want to aks you a question!” He then thrust the phone into my hand. “Aks her how many pickney me ‘ave!”
POWER STRAP! always speaks in a deep bellow, that’s why I’m using exclamation marks.
So I took the phone and said, “Hello? How many kids does Power Strap! have?”
There was a slight pause then a woman’s voice answered, “Him ‘ave twenty-tree dawtah.”
“She said twenty-three,” I said to POWER STRAP!
He leaned into the phone and bellowed, “An’ how many pickney-momma? Tell ‘im!”
“Nineteen baby-momma,” the woman’s voice said.
“She said nineteen baby-momma,” I said to POWER STRAP!
He took the phone, bellowed something into it and put it back in his pocket.
“Now listen!” he said, “Me actually ‘ave tirty-two kid! But nine of dem was wid married ‘omen, so de husband doan know ‘bout dem! Yuh see?”
Negril Health Center
The Negril Health center, located on the road to Savannah la Mar near the police station, is the primary health care facility in Negril. The charge is $50J per visit. A doctor is not always there but nurses are. They will fix you up, but you may have to bring the required medical supplies. I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d seen a motorbike accident victim whose arm was encased in a cast. He’d had it done at the Health Center but he’d had to provide the casting materials and the sling.
That different services are offered on different days is obvious by the types of persons gathered outside the gate awaiting its opening. Some mornings there’s a gaggle of pregnant women standing about, massaging their lower backs as they wait. Other mornings there are women with babies.
One morning I passed the gate and saw a group of goats milling around, which made me think that maybe a veterinarian would be attending.
Likkle more . . . .
My Books:
Walk Good - Sunset Negril - Night NurseAvailable @ www.amazon.com - search 'Roland Reimer'
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