Only a Vincy...

Only a Vincy would understand, then again maybe you would too
After eating; accidentally swallowing a tamarind(tambran thanks Peggy ) seed for the first time Your mother finds you on the toilet crying ‘cause you trying so hard to get it out... For fear it would grow in yo belly.

You in (insert financial institution) and somebody complaining to the top of they voice that;“E big man inside deh ah avide me like if e waah tief me money, E nah wah me open me mout in ya today ah nuh”.

You have gone to school with one or more of the following persons- Sugar head, Reds, Slimz, Shorty, Short Man, Bully, Black Boy, Blackee, Fat Man, Ball Head, Tooth Pick,Big Stone, Stick boy,Libber Lip....

You can name atleast two persons who should write Common Entrance or they Junior 5 teacher a "Thank You Note" fo telling them what
 they real name be because fo dem whole primary school life them writing the wrong thing and now mek you have to learn a whole new name to call dem.

You go for your driver’s license and realize that we have more streets than Middle St, Back St. and Bay St.

It took you until you got to about 14yrs or so to realize that the movie “To Be Announced” was never a movie in the first place, so all the nights you waited to see it were in vain. lol

At some point in your life somebody almost drowned you out Villa Beach because they figured that their actions would make you learn to swim.

You went to a funeral all decked in funeral gabs and you didn’t even know much less like the deceased

 When yo granny looking for she shoe, cant find it and says "Satan real busy ah nuh, satan real busy"

You talking to this woman and you don't answer fast enough and as though she is your mother she says; "Answer me!" but you Vincy so you cant be offended. lol

You in a van and almost every stop the van mek the conductor either picking up "Tanty, Uncle or Gramps" but none of them ever see him in dey life but you feel a little better cause he called you "Cuz".

You get to maximum capacity in the van or so you think and the conductor start take out all the small stool them ( come on you know the ones) and tell the ppl in the back to "small up yo self". 18 seater wtih 25 people and more, now that is a van ride.

you know there is a clear difference between "murdooooo/mudderwuk, wait yo ah kill me" and "murder advantage, peeplo advantage oye, advantage"

yo know yo Vincy when you sitting at yo wedding table and yo spot ah nicely dressed man/woman sitting at least two tables from you enjoying yo banquet. Dem have the biggest plate and dem seem to know eveybody by dem table who happen to be you or yo husband/wife peeplo dem. So yo turn to yo husband/wife and ask who he/she be and dem to turn to you and say "me nah know... me tink ah somebody fo u"
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and the one that is going to make me take up permanent residence in Taiwan

At any one point in ur school life you knew more than three persons named Karen, Lisa, Janelle, Samantha, Junior, or Shaun (with its many spellings) so every teacher had to say first name and last name so the right child could answer . lol ah know one of them is yo best friend too.


©Adriana S. King 2001, 2009

2 Responses so far.

  1. Unknown says:

    LOL @ "to be announced"

  2. Neka says:

    Proud to be Vincy.. lol.. cracked me up...well done!

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