Why do Jamaicans think Americans always need something?

[TizzyATX]

Well stated Tic

My CD guys are my personal fav.

[TiCtOc]

On top of my already long rambling post I forgot to add not only was I probably the most afraid on this board of the beach sellers initially I now miss them! I miss the interaction, the conversation and having everything come to me when I need it.I miss the small talk I miss the stories I miss the jokes.I miss them trying to make a sale and when I may not want to buy something we bounce jokey insults from each other I got no money honeyy! or sometimes I do buy items.When I come back from Jamaica all I see is miserable faces in miserable weather no-one brings you nothing no-one says hello , no -one asks hows your day or can they help you in any way.I guess I am the total opposite of the original poster who thinks they are all annoyances and scammers,I guess I am the odd person who misses it all and actually pays an incredible amount every year for me and my family to be there and hear these sales pitches day in day out.Actually if you bother to stop and chat with them for a minute or two if you ever need to sell anything back home you may pick up a tip or two.There is no better salesmen and women in the WORLD than those in Jamaica! And I have learned a few sales patter lines myself.So not only do I miss them I have learned from them and enjoy my little items I have bought.Ahhh when is my next trip?
Any froooooooot?
Yeah man
U WANN cd? Yeah mon
U need a likkle fresh squeezed orange juice
yeah mon
patty
double yay mon
Can I drive u into the sunset on this tropical island?
yeah bwoy
You want a personal live reggae show on a 7 mile gorgeous beach
yeah mon
I sooo miss it I need to be there now wonder what new items for sale shall await?

[Rambo]

I guess I'd rather be approached by a Jamaican offering to sell me something, which I now expect and know how to handle it...
than be sitting next to a "visitor" with a "spiteful" or "****ty" attitude towards the people who's Island I CHOSE to visit, only for the fear that I might be compared to, and wind up being treated as they are......

[Miss Anna]

To add my 2 cents. It's not only americans or tourists who are being aproached by sales pple in Jamaica. When you are a natural born Jamaican and drive around Kingston in a good car you are being approached on every stop light with attempts to wash your windows, sell you peanuts, CDs, bag juice and so on. If you are a low income jamaican and travel by bus on every bus station they offer you to buy cold pepsi, crackers and stuff passing it on through the windows when you are already sitting on your bus. Very convenient by the way. So its not a service offered only to the tourists

[Marie]

Well said Miss Anna as a Kingstonia that's "the norm"

[Rambo]

the same is played in the big cities of the US, you stop for a light, you will more than likely be offered a clean view, among other things.....be careful and even suspicious, but try and not be MEAN

someday YOU could be competing with that person for that very same corner.......?

[lachacha]

Here's the simple answer to your question, game cock.

The Jamaican people are trying to make a living in their own country. If it bothers you, why don't you try Bermuda next time.

We leave for our 8th trip Saturday and I, for one, look forward to my exchanges with the folks on the beach.

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