I find that the best of my adventures start with this title. So there I was on Saturday, peacefully minding my own business on my friend’s verandah, thinking to myself “Well I will just go home now, finish reading my book, write my speech for tomorrow ( I was the guest speaker at the installation dinner of Zenith’s Optimists of New Kingston president), then I will just call Lorna and read my speech to her, when my phone rang. The conversation is as follows:
Self: Hi Lorna – (in true Jamaican style greeting) Yuh going to live long, I was just thinking about you.
Lorna: Where are you
Self: At Home
Lorna: (hesitantly) aren’t you supposed to be somewhere?
Self: Hmmm Nope!
Lorna: Aren’t you supposed to be giving a speech?
Self: Dat’s tomorrow!
Lorna: Ahhh no that’s today
Self: Tomorrow is the 7th!
Lorna: Noo Today is the 7th!
Self: RASS! Oonoo start yet?
Lorna: You are the guest speaker – we cannot start without you.
Self: (Laughing too hard now )- mi going to bathe and catch a taxi — soon come
Well I reached and gave an abridged version of my speech – because remember - mi never write de speech yet
