one stop shop
when I lived in JA I would sometimes help my friend Peart run his little shop. A normal customer may come and order the following:
2 rizzla (single papers)
$5 grabba (this was tobacco, rolled like a cigar, but came by the meter like rope. one inch for $5)
half pound of chicken (frozen and choped off with machete)
one pound rice
one rum
"hey boss how much it come to?"
"yah man -me 'ave de money man -see it here."
"bwoy time is hot yuh know bwoy. credit me one well cold beer man. no watch nutin."
"bombo clot man yuh too tief! jah know I say I gwine pay yuh man."
"guh way man"
2 comments:
That was really cool to try and interpret. What were you doing in Jamaica?
peace corps
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