Monday, December 06, 2004

Monday, Monday

Hello, Blogland, how's your Monday? Mine's got money issues. Last night, when ah was ironin', mi pampered Piglet asked, "Mommy, how much money did yu collect for the fundraiser?" Turns out he has to turn in the papers today. Pressure. De Piggy haffe goh resurrect that from mi handbag now. Mr. Pig malice them tings deh. He wanted the school to serve only healthful/organic food/juices in the cafeteria, but the Board of Ed didn't completely follow through, when Mr. Pig went all out wif the overpriced fundraising catalog a couple years in a row, so now Mr. Pig leaves all de beggin to Da Piggy. Oink! "Yu naw contribute a smalls?" ah asked Mr. Pig. "Nope," he said, "and tek yu eye dem off-ah mi shirt dem!" (Side bar: He doesn't like it when De Piggy wears his GOOD shirts; an' of course, ah won't put on any a them--until him leave!) I'm not as vexed as Angry Dog, just slightly annoyed, 'cause I'll be stoppin at the Bankport to withdraw far too much money to sponsor overpriced items (so that de Piglet can win a prize for high-achievin' beggar). Lawd knows, him beg we enough!
I had no such beggar's luck, when ah used to do Walk-a-thon in grades 3 and 4. Ah recall one evenin' when De Piggy and a classmate hopped over to Red Hills Mall wif mi Auntie. We deedle-dawdled outside, waitin' for her and wavin' de paper about, until we saw an oldish woman and a little boy approachin. "Let's try them," De Piggy said, and mi classmate quickly chose the softer of the two--the oldish woman. De Piggy reluctantly approached the boy (in our peer group, about 9 or 10). He was goin' to buy some chocolate, he said, but then he smiled and split his chocolate money wif Da Piggy. Score!! Surprisingly, the "soft-hearted" oldish woman implied that she wasn't interested. (Ah believe her exact words were, "Move yu sowwah bumbo!") Then she went on to vent about how we better off than she, an' how our "people dem inna big job." What led her to think that? De Piggy's people worked in the low rungs (teller) at a bank (which, back then, I'm told, carried de same dubious status of workin' at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Cayman). It wasn't a question of smarts; yu only had to have a certain look to work there, an' mi relatives--male and female--had that glossy look; but suffice it to say that mi Walk-a-thon never made it to the heights of the icing-cake prize. People gave pitiful little--even when mi aggressive Auntie badgered her coworkers at de bank. Now, years later, here's De Piggy breakin' the unspoken beggin' code by puttin' up all de money herself! Jeez!
In closin', Dr. D., if U're still in da CD mode, try de soft new stuff from Latifah. And Jdid, I'm finally wonderin' why you're called Jdid (jaded). Okay; happy Monday, all--give De Pig a kiss, dawlin.

8 comments:

Scratchie said...

Oink Oink,
Hope today finds you well. I know exactly what you mean about the fund raising thing all courtesy of my daughter, the short one. Now she puts anybody to shame with the begging thing. Last year she took two sheets, one for mommy and one for daddy. I asked what about her begging for her school, she advised that she cordinates. Luckily a coworker of mine who also knows her shared the same alma mater. She took the sheet and returned an amount that exceeded the target. Mi nuh like the beggin business at all.
Kiss kiss.

Melody said...

Kiss Kiss, Scratchie. It's nice ta hear from you. A few nights ago, I was readin' what yu wrote about helpin da Short One to adjust to high school, an' it put a smile on mi face. I'm glad her fundraiser went well. Is a pity that fings change so much that a child can't venture out an' do school-beggin' anymore--and everyday wi hear more about de violence in JA! Enjoy de day, luv.

Jdid said...

well I had something to say about the whole fund raising thing in august under street people. lol. Actually I wish the governemnts would put soem more money into schools. oh well.

yep jaded I am. a so it go sometimes. but i struggling ta survive and i aint giving up.

Anonymous said...

Popsy and I not too into the begging for fund raising either. I tell the kidlets outright that we are not going for the "Big" prize. Actually, I think it is a negative thing for the fundraising companies to praise up the prizes. It causes undo stress on the parents as well as emphazing the receiving rather than the giving in my opinion. But that's just me all the same.
Ciya

Anonymous said...

Mel, dat one had me laughing non stop! "Sowwah Bumbo"! LOL! Thanks for that one, its 9:32PM, I'm at work and I did a full day here yesterday and you made my night with that one...

Mad Bull

Melody said...

Jdid, ah just found the street-people post that yu mentioned. It was funny--but oh so true! Ciya, ah don't too like de idea of De Piglet beggin either; but it means so much to him to work for his school (U know how they anchor it to school citizenship!) that ah always keep helpin him wif de beggin catalog.

Melody said...

MAD BULL, I'm glad yu got a kick out of it! As U & I know, it harsh--but inna JA, people haffe tek bad tings an' mek laugh.

Anonymous said...

Sowwah bumbo indeed! LOL.

I hear you about the CDs! Ent buy none yet. Dr. D.