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Horn is only a Horn if yuh take it On
Dr.
Ram Dass Editorial People
can't seem to make up their minds on when a horn does actually become a horn,
but dey does sure agree on when it definitely is! I've conducted several
random, informal surveys and my results shouldn't be shocking at all. For one,
the chances of someone being inclined to drift from the narrow line of monogamy
isn't tied to gender, nationality or even race as most would argue. I've actually
found that people's opinion of those with insidious relationship traits is not
tied to balanced surveys but rather to that person's bad experiences... directly
or indirectly. My old college friend, Stephanie Shannon originally from Rockford,
Illinois today still swears that men worser dan cancer. "I'm
isn't biased... no, no, no..." she herself has never been in a relationship
that turned out to be a threesome that she wasn't aware of, however 2 of her closest
friends both cried on her shoulder for 2 months each... Ryan Crawford, who we
does call Jep, is one of my better examples. After all, de first 3 girls that
Jep ever deal all had boyfriends at the time, and de 2nd one, Giselle, I can't
remember her last name, was de only one that did bother to eventually break up
with her man. Middle aged Jackie Sheppard and I had work in Salvatory Building
back in 2002. She dated a Jamaican when she was in College in New York and a Lucian
for a year post graduation while living in Berkley, CA. In both cases she catch
dem with their hands in somebody else cookie jar. Needless to say in her
opinion, that "West Indian men are Satan’s Spawn."
Meh boy Jep
come ranting tuh me bout ah girl dat he meet by de bar. Truth is, dis man in love
with her for years now... 7 to be exact. Ever since de first time he see her at
his ex-girlfriend's wedding in 2000. Is to de point where if yuh know him, den
you know how bobolee de does get when her name come up. So when he come all giddy
and skipping like a child with de promise of ice-cream in his near future, I done
know who he see. Regular reaction from Jep, except that he said that this time
they met. Finally, after all this time. It made me feel good, not only because
I just happy to see a man's long lost dreams coming true, but also because from
now and going forward is only thanks I getting for making him spend $3,495TTD
to fly up from Trini for Miami Carnival. This is one fete that he will
never forget. De Grapevine says that she's been available for the past
month and as the Gods would have it, this is when they meet. A
bar with layers of people trying to get drinks, Jep there leaning over de bar
for about 15mins now... waving $40 in chits hoping to be noticed by a bartender.
The feeling of bodies against him had the comfort of repeatedly going through
airport security. Ever so often he looked around to make sure that it wasn't a
man that was getting so close. He was losing hope and started to consider going
in search of a next bar when a voice behind him screamed out "Ey!" and
push away a man who had the grin like he just pinch de bottom of a woman in public.
The girl... Stacy Lim-Way, had the angry resolve of a woman whose cheeks
were just pinched in public. Without fully registering who he was defending
or who he was defending her from, Jep directed her in front of him to shield her
from the sweat and push of the crowd, while giving the pincher a passing stare
that warned to carefully consider your next action. She
thanked him and cursed the civics of her assailant to nobody in particular. Jep
made a joke about going to see if the guy was ok after the Crouching Tiger push
that she gave him. She asked Jep what his name was and if he was from Trinidad.
Jep answered and exclaimed "de accent, is always de accent dat does giv meh
away". His sarcasm was on point tonight. She laughed and touched his arm
just below his elbow, which make him nervous and self conscious. He was
always sure that she knew who he was, I mean how long can you stalk someone (even
from a distance) before they notice you? Yet she spoke as if Jep just
moved to planet earth. Jep chose his words carefully as if he was paying by de
letter. He could have asked questions that may have gotten her to realize or admit
that she knew him, or at least who he was. He figured however, that this was like
when people say, "let's start over, "hello, my name is..." Starting
from scratch could have made this meeting perfect he thought.
Jep walk over
with an odd smile that almost seemed queer, and asked, "wha ah should do
boy?" He was dancing with her for sometime before she took a timeout to accompany
a friend to the bathroom. Jep's dilemma was dat he had a woman... Nadia.
De same UWI smallie from that night in 51 and things couldn't have been better
from what I've been hearing for about de last 2 months. He ask me if he should
go thru, explaining that Stacy lives in DC now, and there's no way that he could
have a long distance relationship, besides the fact that he wasn't ready to get
rid of Nadia. "So you want to know if this would be considered a
horn and if you should do it?" He nodded. In situations involving
questionable discretion, I chose not to offer advice. Do as you please, free from
my judgment. I only responded with questions that he would have to answer himself.
"Would you still do it if you knew you'd get caught by Nadia or by Stacy?"
He wasn't sure, but was sure that he'd regret it for the rest of his life if he
didn't. "Looking back you never regret the ones you did, only the ones you
didn't," I told him. "And I ent know bout you, but the ones you didn't
is too much for the rest of us to regret... But I do know how you feel about her."
While he went
off dancing the night away I considered ah movie dat ah take in on HBO de other
night called Minority Report. In de movie, de police does get info up to 2 weeks
in advance about murders. De murderer name, victim name, exact time that it happens
and video images of de actual murder. De movie set in a period when it have no
murders cause people either fraid jail or they does get arrested before. They
called de police department "Pre-Crime" in de movie. It
had me wondering... and it came back to mind tonight... if a Trini was
to make de movie de department would have been called "Pre-Horn!"
(Look out for de parody*) If your woman would see in advance de horner-woman and
you brushing and knew the exact date, time and situation... and you knew that,
would people still try? Worst yet, if you knew that your woman was going tuh horn
ya next week Sunday at the gym with Stinky Joe, even though you could prevent
it, would it matter? ie. Does de fact that she didn't actually do it make it forgivable?
What aspect of de horn matters more... de physical or de mental? Allya
study dat when ya fetin in Miami Carnival this week. Dr.
Ram Dass say, "ah doh want to know if ah getting horn"
Trini Jungle
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